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.

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[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Jess, thanks! My aunt was quite elderly, and had been "evaporating" (in my Cousin Paul's words) for some time . . . her death was sad, but also a lovely time to take out old photos of her and think about her life, with all of us together in one place.

What can I say? I'm a tease - but I'll try to do better.