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I got back from San Antonio in good shape–the weather going down qualified as Interesting, and the weather coming back easily made the category Delightful. The Toe is much better. The FYE Conference was fascinating, and I met a lot of people from colleges and universities all over the country. Random House sends a big team promoting its “common read” and “FYE read” books. A small group of writers are given exposure to the faculty and staff who choose the books for freshmen to read, or the whole college to read. Since The Speed of Dark has been used that way, I’m now on their radar. I was the only fiction writer (of five) and the only woman. Felt kind of odd, and very unlike an SF convention (where were the Klingons?? Well…there were Romulans on Star Trek on TV last night) but I had fun.
And tomorrow is the Big Day. My Silver Book Anniversary (so to speak.) Among the other writers were National Book Award winners (wow!) but I had them outnumbered, if not surrounded. Tired now, and waiting to hear back from the hotel if they found what I left in the room (and I haven’t left anything in a hotel room in…um…I can’t think when was the last time.) Worst is that it was my favorite writing-on-a-trip collection of music–all classical. Bach, Stanford, Mozart, Beethoven, Elgar, etc.
Comment by Kevin Steverson — February 20, 2012 @ 10:22 pm
Ma’am,
Congratulations on the Silver Book Anniversary (should be an award, even if it isn’t). I can’t wait to get the book tomorrow..I will have to fight my daughter over it, though. But that’s OK..I think I can still take her..she may be a freshman…and in ROTC at UGA but I am an old SFC with plenty of tricks up my sleeve.
Comment by Iphinome — February 20, 2012 @ 11:59 pm
Does this mean more book sales and more first year psych students misdiagnosing themselves?
Comment by Mike G. — February 21, 2012 @ 6:27 am
Congratulations on the anniversary!
And _Echoes of Betrayal_ hit my kindle this morning – time to find out where the first 50 left off so I can pick up there 🙂
Comment by elizabeth — February 21, 2012 @ 10:04 am
Iphinome: Random House certainly hopes for more book sales (and so do writer!) but not all the books are likely to affect the psych students (in R’s school it was called “sophomore’s disease”–both psych and pre-med students would be sure they had whatever they’d just read about.) I don’t *think* _The Speed of Dark_ will convince people not on the spectrum that they’re on the spectrum (I haven’t heard of that happening yet.) The other books were more directly inspirational than mine. Fascinating group of writers–I decided after meeting them and hearing the stories that fiction writers have the tamest lives and make up for it by giving their characters exciting ones.)
Mike G: Thanks, and I wish Kindle would give page #s, even if some of them were in the middle of the page. Would make it easier for people to discuss with those who read the paper version.
Kevin: So the ROTC cadet’s about to find out about old age & treachery when it comes to who gets the book first, right? She hasn’t a chance.
Comment by Bo Steverson — March 2, 2012 @ 6:09 pm
Hello, Ma’am.
This is Kevin’s daughter. And I WON! I got it first! Simply because it’s on my Kindle, but still. I won as a cadet against a Senior NCO.
He still bought the hard copy which will be added to my collection as soon as he lets it out of his sight for more than just a few hours.
-Bo
Comment by elizabeth — March 2, 2012 @ 8:55 pm
Um…you probably already know this, but when cadets win something against senior NCOs, the NCOs have a way of inflicting a little payback. Not that I’m not happy for you, but…