So, wow.

[truepenny]

There are a lot of y'all reading this blog.

I'm figuring it's time for one of those periodic getting-to-know-you posts. So if you'd like to introduce yourself, or you'd like to ask a question (any question, although I reserve the right not to answer), here's a superlative spot to do it at.

This is not a pressure-y kind of thing. Only an invitation.

And I'll reiterate a couple of things:

1. I almost never add people reciprocally. Because, well, I have 25 people on my reading list right now, and that's almost too many. There are many people whom I like and admire whose blogs I don't read. Apparently, I just need that processing power for something else.

2. I only reply to comments if I actually have something to say. However, I read all comments, and I am always, always grateful for them. (N.b., excluding the occasional and inevitable troll.) I forget to say that a lot, because sometimes I'm kind of a rotten excuse for a human being. But I'm definitely reading and interested.

So here. The lines are open and you're on the air.

Comments

[smills47.livejournal.com]

Hello, I'm retired and living in NE Wisconsin (and loving it, you betcha! even with the weather). Before that I developed software in Silicon Valley for a long time and before that I taught Classics here and there for a not very long time.

I love your books and enjoy reading your blog because it lets me learn a bit about what it's like to be a writer. For example, before I read your interview on Friday I just naturally assumed that the boys leapt together fully formed from your brain. But the actuality is more interesting.

A question, frivolous but I'd love to know, were you the Seymour Fellow?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I think I missed a turn somewhere. Seymour Fellow?

[smills47.livejournal.com]

My sorry, I meant Thomas Day Seymour Fellow at the ASCS. In my day, aka the Token Philologist. Your profile lists ASCS under schools but I suspected you'd been there the first time I read the villain's last name ;-) Anyhow, I guess the answer must be No.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Ah. No. I was only at the ASCS for the Summer Session. But it's one of the coolest things I've ever done