Things you don't see coming.
Aug. 24th, 2010 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greygirlbeastTerrible, terrible insomnia last night. The sun was up before I finally lay down, covered up my head, and fell asleep.
Spooky woke me at about 11:30 a.m. to tell me that The Red Tree has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award. Which left me speechless, and happy, and confused, and lots of other things. My thanks to everyone who emailed me the news this morning, and to all the people who have bought and read and loved the book. This genuinely does mean a lot to me. Does this mean I'm doing something right?
Yesterday, I wrote 853 words, for Y and Z, and finished "The Yellow Alphabet" for Sirenia Digest #57. The whole work, divided between #56 and #57 comes to 10,348 words.
I read a National Geographic article about eels.
Anyway, stuff to do. A long day ahead. Again, my thanks to everyone who's shown their support for The Red Tree.
Spooky woke me at about 11:30 a.m. to tell me that The Red Tree has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award. Which left me speechless, and happy, and confused, and lots of other things. My thanks to everyone who emailed me the news this morning, and to all the people who have bought and read and loved the book. This genuinely does mean a lot to me. Does this mean I'm doing something right?
Yesterday, I wrote 853 words, for Y and Z, and finished "The Yellow Alphabet" for Sirenia Digest #57. The whole work, divided between #56 and #57 comes to 10,348 words.
I read a National Geographic article about eels.
Anyway, stuff to do. A long day ahead. Again, my thanks to everyone who's shown their support for The Red Tree.
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Date: 2010-08-24 05:29 pm (UTC)I think it's well deserved. Congratulations!
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Date: 2010-08-24 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-24 05:40 pm (UTC)Reading it on the heels of owning my own home, living alone for the first time in ages, and beginning a quasi-journal on my grandfather's old Royal typewriter, the book resonates for me on more levels than I can count. I do hope it wins.
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Date: 2010-08-24 07:09 pm (UTC)I really look forward to the rest of the alphabet.
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Date: 2010-08-24 08:31 pm (UTC)You were doing something right long before the nomination came along. This is just icing on the cake. :)
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Date: 2010-08-24 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-24 09:14 pm (UTC)Nine
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Date: 2010-08-24 09:50 pm (UTC)Also, I really enjoyed part one of the "Yellow Alphabet." Have you considered offering prints of the texts for individual letters, possibly illustrated? Definitely something I would frame and hang on my walls, maybe other readers would as well.
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Date: 2010-08-24 11:03 pm (UTC)But after so much toil, of course it feels good to get this wonderful mark of appreciation from others. Congratulations! Now celebrate!
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Date: 2010-08-25 01:18 am (UTC)I miss National Geographic. I really need to walk out to the library and catch up with that old friend.
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Date: 2010-08-25 02:51 am (UTC)No, frak that-go for the win, grind your enemies into fine semolina and make pasta out of them. Or something like that.
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Date: 2010-08-25 05:17 pm (UTC)I think it means someone finally noticed. Congratulations.