She arrived yesterday in this totally benign box which doesn’t even sport the name of my publisher or a New York address (where all good publishers dwell) yet I knew just what was in it the moment I laid eyes on it.
I also knew that my ten “author” (read: free) copies of Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind would be in the box but it really did nothing to prepare me for this glorious sight.
Or this one. Isn’t she beautiful? (When did I start referring to my book as “she”?)
This is a good one, too. It doesn’t matter which way I twist her or turn her, I can’t get a bad picture of her. She has no bad angles. (The photographer, however, leaves much to be desired—remind me to fire her, post haste!)
More news on Miss D: Library system number six has put her on order and as a request from some angelic person out there in Wisconsin. The book is on hold for Miss Madison WI (click on the cover of my book in the sidebar to see info about libraries) which is a very thrilling thought since I don’t know a soul in Madison which leads me to believe this isn’t a pity order, but one that some real and living person put in out of genuine desire to read my book. Go figure!
More news on Miss D: Library system number six has put her on order and as a request from some angelic person out there in Wisconsin. The book is on hold for Miss Madison WI (click on the cover of my book in the sidebar to see info about libraries) which is a very thrilling thought since I don’t know a soul in Madison which leads me to believe this isn’t a pity order, but one that some real and living person put in out of genuine desire to read my book. Go figure!
Lastly, I received this wonderful blog award from Jami at Superfluous Miscellany yesterday.
I am to pass it on to five or six bloggers of my choice but first I have to do the rounds and find out which of you wonderful bloggers out there haven’t already received it. It seems that I am among the last in blogdom to do so, something for which I need to really get down on my knees and thank Jami since it would be pretty humiliating to be the only one who hasn’t. Didn’t. Whatever. Isn’t it pretty? It would have been smashing with my old color palette. (Meanwhile, I’m starting to have pink and green withdrawals. It’s still 85 degrees most days so the lack of pink does not compute. All I see is black and brown and orange and yellow glaring in the light of a molten-hot autumn sun.)
A great idea just entered my obsessively self-absorbed mind! Whomever signs up to be my follower #24 will be instantly added to the list because, one must admit, it is a pretty creative way to get a blog award. You know, for creativity, and all . . . Yes? No? Maybe?
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