frontiers of joy

[realthog]

Norilana Books has now issued its first Press Release about the acquisition of Leaving Fortusa: http://norilanabooks.livejournal.com/38421.html.

I'm so very fired up about this. My ballbuster agent sent the book out with her (genuine, she told me) comment that she felt this was the novel I'd been put here to write, as it were. I was a bit stunned by the description at first, then realized I agreed with her.

It's also a novel that's going to get a lot of people very angry. No one I personally give too much of a $Zb about, to be honest; but a lot of folk out there. I hate raising hackles, but there are times . . . Sinclair Lewis didn't write It Can't Happen Here because he wanted to offend people but because he was terrified by the anti-human horrors that well intentioned Denial might unwittingly accomplish. That's kind of where I'm coming from, too. We can no longer afford the luxury of good people refusing to face the unpleasant truths in front of them.
 

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[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

[ "Who did you think you were meeting up with at the KGB Bar reading in February?" ]

A talented writer who is a smart, informed, congenial sort of person, with a sense of humor (when Ellen or Gavin publishes a person, all of those are given, but I hadn't realized you were published with them at the time I encountered you online either). And who wasn't afraid of a drink.

The sort of person I / we (meaning Vaquero and I) spend our time with. :)

The great thing about LJ is that I've run into and made friends with a lot of people who are like that, but who aren't in -- well, slots. If that makes sense.

Love, C.

deleted and edited coz I'd made one of my famous finger tangles on the keyboard, and because I hadn't addressed himself's famousity. He is, as I learned in the last few days. But I'm always lalalaing around, not knowing these things about people I run into and then like a lot.