ecstaticAhem. Discount Armageddon has debuted on the New York Times Bestseller list, in position #35. This is otherwise known as "the best position," because it is mine, and I love it. I am...I am overjoyed. I am SO EXCITED I COULD DIE. This is my second time on the list (my first was with Late Eclipses), and to make it with my very first book in a brand new series is like a dream come true.
This is my crazy little book about a ballroom dancing cryptozoologist cocktail waitress with talking mice in her closet and nothing in her fridge, and it's on the New York Times Bestseller list. I can't believe it.
Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you to everyone who bought this book during release week. I am so glad, and so grateful, and so excited. Above everything else, I am so excited.
Discount Armageddon made the list.
March 23 2012, 01:01:39 UTC 5 years ago
I bring this up because I just finished reading it, and since I have access to a way to contact the author, I am going to do so to tell you OMG IT WAS AWESOME THIS WAS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE READ IN YEARS. I'm not kidding. I haven't felt such unallayed joy and delight in a book in at least a decade. Your book might be the one to get me back into reading long-form fiction. I'd given up on ever feeling that thrill again - I thought I'd somehow lost the ability to feel it when I had to start dealing with grownup things. It's been years since I made a habit of reading anything but novels by authors I already know, most of which I've read many times before, non-fiction and very, very occasional fanfic if and only if it's been recced by friends I trust.
You even write well! By which I mean, yes, the story is good and the characters are engaging and stuff, but lots of published authors do that. You also write with fluency, with rhythm in the language and an easy mastery of the technicalities of English. It gives your writing style intelligence and literacy without being pretentious. (I was trying to come up with a way to express this better, but my metaphors all sounded ridiculously pretentious themselves, so I gave up.)
I posted a mini-review of it here, which I will make a point of telling you about because while I only write fanfic, and stuff, I know *I* always want to read it when people talk about stuff I've written. (I didn't put in the part about this book made me feel literary joy again for the first time in half my lifetime because I don't want to overhype it and have people feel disappointed if they read it and they don't find it to be, like, a revelation of the capacity for joy still to exist in a cold and desolate world, etc.)
Thank you for writing this. More, please. (I am, by the way, enchanted and delighted by the Aeslin mice and I swear I don't care if they keep me awake, I want some.)
May 4 2012, 15:49:04 UTC 5 years ago
This makes me enormously happy, in all the ways.