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ellen_kushner

Another Irritating Vampire

Jan 22, 2011 20:05

The Datlow/Windling teen vampires that are profound & have literary value & can be genuinely scary YA anthology TEETH is coming this March - and already advance reviews are popping up and torturing me. Because I hate spoilers, that's why: I want to come all brain-virginal & pristine to new work by personal heroes like Suzy Charnas & Jeff Ford & ( Read more... )

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taraljc January 23 2011, 05:57:44 UTC

*makes flappy hands of glee*

*pre-orders EVERYTHING*

ellen_kushner January 23 2011, 15:49:49 UTC

Hey, it really worked: Yesterday when I wrote this, WELCOME TO BORDERTOWN's Amazon ranking was, like, #730,000, and just now it's #35,600! This stuff goes up and down like a yo yo on a string - but clearly several people just took my advice. Smart folks.

taraljc January 24 2011, 12:55:44 UTC

It is MAGICAL and EXCITING. I still have a screencap I made to commemorate the exact moment when Chicks Dig Time Lords was the #1 ranked Doctor Who category book. Possibly I sent it to my co-editor's husband, so we could make squeaky noises about it outranking RTD's A Writer's tale (even if it didn't stay #1 for more than half a day).

badverb January 26 2011, 04:50:24 UTC

I am crazy excited. I meant to come back and write that I had taken your advice the other day. It's real! And it will arrive at my desk in May! And I will read it. And then I will read it again.

*happy sigh*

toctoc January 23 2011, 14:56:10 UTC

Exciting!

msss January 23 2011, 21:01:19 UTC

Ordered. For overseas people, try Book Depository for free shipping!

ellen_kushner January 25 2011, 15:36:31 UTC

Thanks!

phoenix64 January 24 2011, 16:03:48 UTC

I am SO EXCITED about Welcome to Bordertown.

ellen_kushner January 25 2011, 15:36:43 UTC

Hurray!

lynn_maudlin January 25 2011, 12:04:39 UTC

I like the honesty of the (me! me! me!) - it's so very human. And it doesn't mean you think you're all that (well, maybe you do, and you wouldn't be far off!), just means you're doing appropriate social animal checking-in stuff. And *thank you* for the links and tips! :D

You're so sweet ellen_kushner January 27 2011, 02:28:18 UTC

"(me! me! me!)" is meant more to replicate the way I still jump up & down at any mention of my work anywhere by anyone . . . . what can I say? I'm aged but immature - like bad cheese. ;)

Re: You're so sweet lynn_maudlin January 27 2011, 23:38:57 UTC

I don't know that it is "immaturity" - my sense of it is that anyone who doesn't have a little thrill of "wow, they mentioned me/my work" is a little jaded or cynical or both. So what I see is the honesty of sharing your reaction. You're a good cheese! ;D