amazedSince that day, I have launched a new website (www.miragrant.com), written the second book in the series, argued the logic of my zombies with a hundred people, and, best of all, seen the publication of Feed in the United States and United Kingdom, made available in virtual form, released as an audio book...and this is all just the beginning. Other languages, other volumes, other miracles, other outbreaks, they're all ahead of us.
It's amazing. It's just amazing. This last year has been such a wonderful adventure, and such an incredible education. I couldn't be more grateful, or more amazed. I've worked so long and so hard, and it seems a little, well...
It's all just a little unreal.
Thank you to everyone who's been here throughout this adventure. Thanks to The Agent, for making it happen; to Amy, for tolerating my crazy during the process of the contract negotiations; to David and Michelle, for all their amazing support; to Rae, for, well, everything; to Mars, for keeping the politics from becoming too much of the pie; to Chris and Tara, for my website; to Steve and Spider, for phone tech-checks; to Brooke, for the medical details.
Thank you to everyone for reading. Hasn't this been an amazing year? And there are two more to come. It's just amazing.
June 27 2010, 18:25:56 UTC 7 years ago
I bought it a few weeks before the end of this last semester and didn't touch it, knowing i needed to get through finals and, oh yeah, planning my CA wedding from the other side of the country. We got on the plane the day of my last final, and tucked in to my carryon was your book. Now, I'm a notoriously bad flyer, which Kermit had heard but didn't really understand until we were on the plane and I was holding his hand and crying. Logan had no idea because we gave him the window seat and he was busy trying to make sure that the plan would take us to "space" (he didn't like it when we told him we weren't going that high, but he enjoyed the takeoff nonetheless). Kermit didn't know what to do with me because there we were, on a non-stop flight back home to family and friends, and if I didn't stay on the plane we weren't going to make our own wedding. I hate for people to know when I'm upset so I was trying to cry quietly and not think about the ways that we could die.
He asked me, "Do you want to read your book?" and I had forgotten what I'd brought, but he said, "It's got zombies in it," and handed it to me. Clearly, he knows me. I read the first couple of pages trying to hold the book with one hand, because I was not letting go of him with my other hand, until the plane settled into the upper atmosphere, the shaking stopped, and I could relax. A few hours into the flight, both my son and future husband fell asleep on either side of me, and most everyone else on the plane did too, but I kept reading through conspiracies and funerals and zombies. As the we landed, I was crying again, because of that thing at the end of the book (you know what I mean) instead of being worried about the plane.
So I can say from experience that FEED can be read on one non-stop flight from Philadelphia to Sacramento, and is definitely distracting (in a good way) enough to keep your average aviatophobic from focusing exclusively on falling to their death in a big metal tube.
June 28 2010, 02:12:29 UTC 7 years ago
Thank you.