My bestselling novel

[ellenkushner]

A friend who works at the Boston Globe just pointed out to me that THOMAS THE RHYMER was on their Local Bestsellers list the week of November 28, 2004. It was #9 in Paperback Fiction (right between Marianne Wiggins & J.M. Coetzee), in a list made up from the four prominent independent (non-genre) bookstores. What surprised me was the date - I had assumed the local sales would have spiked in late October, when I did a radio interview on "A Celtic Sojourn" and also did a reading/concert at one of the relevant bookstores. Maybe it was early holiday shopping?

Meanwhile, forgive me for not keeping up my journal - I have oh so much to tell you, from my 12-hour trip to New Jersey to do a KlezNut gig in December (a.k.a. "There And Back Again, or, Michael did all the driving, thank god"), to actually finishing a good draft of my new novel (which I have been intending to ramble on about ad infinitum, but just can't seem to find the occasion) at midnight before we left for vacation, to the death last week of my elderly aunt. . . . But I'm afraid this is just what it's like to have me as a correspondent.

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

You finished a novel? A good draft of a novel?

Woo-hoo!

When will the rest of the world get to see it?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Thank you! My Gang of Five is fine-tooth-combing it right now, and then I'll do revisions, and then I will need fresh sets of eyes to see what I've still missed (any volunteers? I'm EKJournalatcomcast dotnet), and then I hope it will go to press. About a year from now, I guess - unless you volunteer. Oh, but it will be Bantam Spectra, and they do a thing (via their newsletter) where readers get a sneak peek at upcoming novels - so there's always that, too.

Meanwhile, come to Wiscon and/or ICFA, where I will surely read some, ham that I am.