How Pamela Dean changed (and also saved) my life.

[seanan_mcguire]

(I thought a lot about whether this needed a trigger warning, and decided that it was better to err on the side of caution. So...TW: very oblique and carefully worded mention of a suicide attempt.)

I don't think it's any secret that I am a voracious reader. I read constantly. My friend Michelle has commented on more than one occasion that she,

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[ckd]

I'm glad you're still here, even if I wouldn't have known I was missing out on knowing you. Sounds like I have another thing to thank Pamela for next time I see her.

[seanan_mcguire]

There's always so much to thank her for.

[herefox]

I love that book and just about everything she's ever written, honestly. I just reread it a few months ago on one of those reread spikes that happen every so often.

And I'm very glad it got you through to today. The world would have been a much sadder place without grumpy coffee addicted fae and horrible zombie plagues and you gave those both to us ;-)

[seanan_mcguire]

Re-read spikes are important.

[martianmooncrab]

its a beautiful book.

Thats a good friend, one who remembered what pink curtains meant and answered the phone.

[seanan_mcguire]

Yes.

[geekhyena]

I have not read it, but I think I'm going to have to beg a copy from the university library now. I'll go there this afternoon. Thank you for writing this.

And re your pink curtains moment....you're not the only one who had moments like that. I wish I'd had verbal shorthand like that to express it, and people to express it to, but I did have a local library where I could get as many books as I wanted.....and for me, Tamora Pierce's and Diane Duane's heroines were what kept me going as a teen. If Alanna and Keladry and Dairine could pull through, well, so could I. Now it's heroines like Agatha Heterodyne, and Sarah Zellaby, and Toby Daye, because new situations and new fears demand different heroes, even when you've gotten better at fighting your own battles. So thank you also for writing such awesome characters.

[seanan_mcguire]

You are welcome in all ways, and I hope you will enjoy the book.

[vixyish]

I'm so glad you are here.

That book has been on my shelves for a while now, waiting its turn in my haphazard queue. I think I'll make it be next.

[seanan_mcguire]

It is a good book.

Trust me.