The First Book of the Rest of Your Life

[ursulav]

So as it turns out, there’s one small problem with winning a Hugo.

(Other than the fact that it hasn’t actually arrived yet, which we are trying to track down. I am assured that Hugos do NOT go missing, and the very nice woman in charge has vowed that I shall have it, but I admit to a bit of trepidation.)

No, the small problem is that at some point

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[blue_mouse]

I bought the Dragonbreath books thinking to myself that I would give them to my nephew when he's old enough to start reading them. I think I'll have to get some additional copies when that time comes, because I don't want to part with my own.

I remember you way back from Lothlorien before it became Elfwood and it's really been amazing and a great inspiration to see you go from posting art on the internet, to being an established artist, to getting published, all the way up to winning a Hugo. You're awesome, keep it up. :)

[dsgood]

I don't suppose you can be persuaded to write "Chicken Soup for the Vegan Soul?"

[wombat32]

isn't the big children's book award the Caldecott? Seems to me that Dragonbreath would be eligible...

[mmegaera]

The one Dragonbreath would be eligible for is the Newbery. The Caldecott is for picture books, as opposed to graphic novels. Dragonbreath, for all its illustrations, is really a chapter book.

[law_nerd]

I suspect that it's not really a shelf one aims at... it's more just one that one arrives on by luck and having provided whatever a particular person needs as comfort at a given moment. (That said, awesome female protagonists tend to be a common factor... though that may be because your list --and mine-- are what comforts a female person.)

Um... for what it's worth, though, an awful lot of your posts here have the same sort of effect as the books on my comfort shelf. Shorter, so often not quite as *much* comfort, but nevertheless your writing tends to leave me feeling generally better about the world, the people in it, and the fact I have not yet managed to figure out how to survive as a hermit in the basement of a *very* good library.

[slashmarks]

I normally just lurk, but I'd like to second this. Although I suspect there is something else going on here, as this blog and a couple of others were how I figured out that yes, it is possible to be happy as an adult and not secretly wish you would die in your sleep and not have to face work tomorrow like everyone I'm related to.

[dancing_crow]

OK, now I have to tell you Digger is on my comfort shelf, next to Hero and the Crown and the blue Sword. And also EE Nesbit and Dark Lord of Derkholm.