b00k!

[truepenny]

I got up this morning to discover that the storm that woke me had been coming in the window over the landing, as storms sometimes do, making things soggy and unpleasant. So I got a couple of towels and was spreading them over the carpet, crouched on the stairs like some sort of mutant frog, when somebody clomps up on the porch and calls UPS! through the screen door.

Writers, as Caitlín Kiernan once said, lead lives of unparalled glamour.

The package was from Penguin (can I just add here that if you'd told my twelve-year-old self that someday I would be published by Penguin, I would not have believed you, no matter how much proof you claimed you had) and contained two copies of Mélusine and a copy of the Ace and Roc sampler that was getting handed out at Comic-Con last weekend.

It is bee-you-ti-ful, this book. As a physical object, I mean. And, you know, it's tangible. It's real. If I turn my head as I'm typing this post, I can stare at it. I can open it to a random page and read words I wrote. It is so freaking bizarre.

I love it and it makes me dizzy.

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Congratulations :-)

[janni.livejournal.com]

And, you know, it's tangible. It's real. If I turn my head as I'm typing this post, I can stare at it. I can open it to a random page and read words I wrote. It is so freaking bizarre.

I kept a copy of the anthology with my first story in my pocket for a week. I couldn't get over how I could keep opening it and finding my words there. It's the coolest thing.

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

w00t w00t!
congratulations ;-)
you get my bootydance icon ...

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to decide if I'm more charmed or disturbed.

Either way, thank you!

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Yay book!

[slithytove.livejournal.com]

Woo!

[larryhammer]

w00t!

---L.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

I am pale with longing to have my very own copy.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Soon.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Indeed, soon.

[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

HLC
(exit, strewing rose petals for the Authoress to tread upon)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I'm glad.

And I love your pigs.

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Enjoy that warm and welcome glow.

And get ready for the next landmark in the reality of your book ... seeing it on bookstore shelves. While the first physical copy calls for happy dances and waltzing with the book in your arms around the privacy of your home (you did do that, right? I'm not the only one?) seeing it on a bookstore shelf allows you to jump up and down, point and hoot in public. Of such thrills are a writer's life made. :-)

[papersky.livejournal.com]

There's nothing like that feeling. It's the magic glue, of course, that makes it into a real book.

Congratulations!

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Boooooooooooo00000000000000000000000000k!

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That's so cool.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I always think of the glamourous life of the writer when I'm cleaning up cat vomit.

Congratulations on your book! The cover looks lovely.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

For me it is scrubbing the john. I often say it aloud then, even.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[heresluck]

Shiny shiny book!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

WOOOHOOO!

[talimena.livejournal.com]

Yay!! That's wonderful! I look forward to reading it.

[joecrow.livejournal.com]

Congratulamifications, and like that! Merry Book-day!

[mountainlaurel.livejournal.com]

O! I hope this happens to me one day!

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! ::counting the days::

[vass]

Hoorah! Hooray!

*looks forward to reading it*

[ckd]

Shiny happy library system listing for book.

Three holds instead of 920 (there were 1500+ before HP-Day), but hey, book! Book with libraries buying it and people requesting it! Yay book!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you! How cool!