The Boys With Champagne

[ellen_kushner]

A lovely dinner last night at Paul Witcover's with Terri Windling & Christopher Schelling (our mutual agent) and assorted friends, for visiting author friend Liz Hand  . . . one of those dinners where the wit and wine flow free, and you wish it would never end (and that you could stop yawning after midnight!). The talk ranged from reading books to

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Available Dark

[ext_287181]

>>Liz's second Cass Neary novel, AVAILABLE DARK (which, if it is even half as good as the first one, is very, very good indeed!)<<

I read it a week ago -- it's even better! But now I have to wait for the third.

Re: Available Dark

[ellen_kushner]

How do you manage to read so much??

Sent Delia off to ICFA with Elizabeth Wein's CODE NAME: VERITY. Because I am a very nice person.

Now she's back, and I must finish it!

Your taste, as always, impeccable.

Re: Available Dark

[ext_287181]

Thing is, I had so loved the first Cass Neary book and never thought there would be another, so I had to pounce on the e-book the second I realized it existed. It was VERY nice of you to let Delia have CODE NAME VERITY, which is astonishing. (I had reading time for that on the plane back from the UK last week... I think it might single-handedly revive interest in US YA publishing in historical fiction.)

Re: Available Dark

[ellen_kushner]

>>I think it might single-handedly revive interest in US YA publishing in historical fiction<<

. . . along with THE FREEDOM MAZE, of course!

[rubygirl29]

I think I have a new mantra! I want the boys with champagne, too.

Congratulations on your successes! You've done Cleveland proud.

Hometown Girl Makes Good

[ellen_kushner]

May you find the boys with champagne . . . or may they find you!

Boys champagne

[anonymous]

I am too old to find them, send them here!!!

Jane

[csecooney]

Frikkin love this. May it flow in fountains ever freely.

[tithenai]

*love*