On release day I went out with my best people, and we toasted the book by moonlight at the side of the canal. My fabulous publisher sent champagne, my fabulous best friend sent flowers in red and gold to match the US cover, and the delivery man bearing these gifts was under the mistaken impression that I must have had a terrible fight with my boyfriend.
DELIVERY MAN: Ah, love, he's sorry! Forgive him!
SARAH (sunnily): I will.
I did not want the delivery man to be sad about my imaginary romantic woes on that day.
Some of the comments here and on
marmalade_fish have almost made me cry. In a good way!
My sister and brother, however, keep my feet on the ground.
GENEVIEVE: I'll probably read your book. After I read Twilight.
SARAH: I am your sister!
GENEVIEVE: Your book isn't a MOVIE.
SARAH: Well, no.
GENEVIEVE: Starring ROBERT PATTINSON.
SARAH: All that you say is true, but I still feel betrayed!
I brought Saul my audiobook, so that he could listen to it in the gym. He proposed a deal: he would listen if I would watch his new show, The Inbetweeners, with him. It is a tale of the hideously embarrassing lives four English schoolboys lead.
SARAH: Oh those poor boys. Oh those poor poor boys. *cries*
SAUL: No, it's funny... Do you not want to watch any more?
SARAH: No keep playing it! Maybe their lives will get better!
SAUL: I think you might be missing a point, here.
Mostly I am still too overcome to make much sense, but do not fear, I still have many tales written for you in the time when I was coherent!
As coherent as I ever am, that is.
The Exclusive and Extremely Embarrassing Full Story of My First Kiss
I have also done a couple of interviews with friends:an interview with speculative casting and an interview with another hapless adventure of mine.
This Saturday at 4 pm GMT, we're having an online Demon's Lexicon release party/readalong/Q&A here. The password is zombieboyfriend. ;) Rumours that I plan to wear a tiara the whole time may be entirely accurate.
And this Sunday I fly away to London, to begin my tour in England. Which is both thrilling and terrifying - I keep inventing scenarios like getting lost on the moors where eventually, starving, my publicist will have to eat me in order to survive.
The tour starts Monday the 8th, Murder One Film Club, 101-106 Leonard Street, Shoreditch, London EC2, at 6:00 pm. 7:30 pm we will be showing HELLBOY - if you'd definitely like to see the movie, email trisha @ murderone.co.uk for a place.
I will be there. And I will try to be here, blogging about my adventures on tour.
... Hopefully nobody will be eaten. But you never know.
DELIVERY MAN: Ah, love, he's sorry! Forgive him!
SARAH (sunnily): I will.
I did not want the delivery man to be sad about my imaginary romantic woes on that day.
Some of the comments here and on
marmalade_fish have almost made me cry. In a good way!My sister and brother, however, keep my feet on the ground.
GENEVIEVE: I'll probably read your book. After I read Twilight.
SARAH: I am your sister!
GENEVIEVE: Your book isn't a MOVIE.
SARAH: Well, no.
GENEVIEVE: Starring ROBERT PATTINSON.
SARAH: All that you say is true, but I still feel betrayed!
I brought Saul my audiobook, so that he could listen to it in the gym. He proposed a deal: he would listen if I would watch his new show, The Inbetweeners, with him. It is a tale of the hideously embarrassing lives four English schoolboys lead.
SARAH: Oh those poor boys. Oh those poor poor boys. *cries*
SAUL: No, it's funny... Do you not want to watch any more?
SARAH: No keep playing it! Maybe their lives will get better!
SAUL: I think you might be missing a point, here.
Mostly I am still too overcome to make much sense, but do not fear, I still have many tales written for you in the time when I was coherent!
As coherent as I ever am, that is.
The Exclusive and Extremely Embarrassing Full Story of My First Kiss
I have also done a couple of interviews with friends:an interview with speculative casting and an interview with another hapless adventure of mine.
This Saturday at 4 pm GMT, we're having an online Demon's Lexicon release party/readalong/Q&A here. The password is zombieboyfriend. ;) Rumours that I plan to wear a tiara the whole time may be entirely accurate.
And this Sunday I fly away to London, to begin my tour in England. Which is both thrilling and terrifying - I keep inventing scenarios like getting lost on the moors where eventually, starving, my publicist will have to eat me in order to survive.
The tour starts Monday the 8th, Murder One Film Club, 101-106 Leonard Street, Shoreditch, London EC2, at 6:00 pm. 7:30 pm we will be showing HELLBOY - if you'd definitely like to see the movie, email trisha @ murderone.co.uk for a place.
I will be there. And I will try to be here, blogging about my adventures on tour.
... Hopefully nobody will be eaten. But you never know.
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ETA: Do not tell me I got the first comment on one of your posts? Wheeee! It's like ... an audience with the queen!
Edited at 2009-06-05 07:32 pm (UTC)
And if anyone's eaten on tour, it totally wasn't me.
But that’s another swoon.
Aaaarrgh! What happened‽
TUTOR 1: So, let's have a revision class on Monday! I think 4-6 is a good time.
VERITY: *flails*
My tutor obviously saw the flailing and took pity on me, because he then sent out an email saying that our class would be on Tuesday. I relaxed.
TUTOR 2: I need to see all of you individually between 4 and 5.30!
VERITY: *emailing back within minutes* HI I NEED THE FIRST SLOT AND COULD YOU MAYBE MAKE IT FIFTEEN MINUTES EARLIER PLEASE?
(This is because I am in Oxford, and need an hour and a half to get to the station and thence to London; then I have to get the tube and wander around hopefully in the general direction of Leonard Street until I find the right place. I may arrive somewhat dishevelled.)
So, if it is 6.30 then yay, I will probably not be running to the train station any more. But I am in a state of terminal confusion, so clarification (of the kind you would give an extremely stupid person) would be very helpful indeed. And if I do make it there at the right place and time, I can't wait to meet you! I hope I do not look too mad.
...Admittedly, I hunted right through the R and B sections to find a copy before seeing that, because apparently I am blind, but I was deeply thrilled. I will be waving it in my siblings' faces shortly, just as soon as I read it again.
Hope you're having an amazing time with all the release hijinks!
I was expecting awesome, but I wasn't expecting this much awesome. It isn't even a very heavy book! I also expected to love Jamie, but damn if Alan isn't in the lead. And it's very refreshing to have a main character/focus person who isn't very nice but still becomes (somehow) sympathetic, rather than a supposedly good guy who's just really unengaging (or annoying, or conceited). Mad, mad props!
Congratulations on being published, and thank you for writing a fantastic novel. So much love!
Okay. I'm done with that.
Now, to the actual reason for this comment.
I finished your book yesterday morning at one because other than it being impossible to put down, I also had to lend it to my best friend for reading, because we have both been waiting FOREVER to read it. We were both so excited!
It was absolutely amazing! I went all over town to find it. Okay, only two bookstores, but they were very far apart bookstores! The first Borders could not find it. Either their shipment didn't come in, they misplaced it somewhere, or it was sold out. I vote on that last one, but I can't be sure.
However, apparently they'd already had people in asking them about the book before me! I was so pleased. I was like, "YAY!" And then they called the other Borders and put one on reserve for me and I rushed off to get it and squeed like the little fangirl I am when I had it in my hands and gushed about your writing to the lady who sold me the book and then started reading it, putting down Catcher in the Rye till I was finished!
It was seriously amazing. I loved it! It was so different from all your fanficiton, because, duh, your world, but so very you. Your humor and all of it. I just adored it. I can't wait to get it back so I can lend it to my landlord and then get it back from her and re-read it.
P.S. My love for Nick has taken me entirely by surprise. I fully expected Alan to become my literary boyfriend for your book.
I was also telling my mum about your book today and was a little uh, enthusiastic. And although I love books and enthuse over them regularly, I don't usually do so to my mum. But I couldn't help myself and now she's sort of using it as her next book club book...but hey, I am sure all her very middle-class, middle-aged friends will fall hopelessly in love with Nick and his swords!
And I am thrilled to be a book club book, it makes me feel extremely fancy, so thank you (and thanks to your mum)!
So, Thank you. Well done. And I look forward to the next one.
But before I even started it, I dreamed about the book last night. ...I dreamed it was actually about dragons, not demons. Evil dragons. I was watching it like a movie, and there was this one scary scene where Nick almost got smashed by a giant ugly sharp talon. I'm sure he came out all right, though.
THEN, the dream changed a little, to myself and other people carrying stacks of your book to shelve them in a bookstore. This was probably caused by how I went looking in the nearest Borders to me on Tuesday, and didn't find it anywhere. :( So my subconscious was trying to fix this grave error. It was cool too because it wasn't just your book - there were companion books you had written too, talking all about the fantasy world of The Demon's Lexicon.
I'll probably write a fuller review when I finish, but right now I am enjoying it GREATLY. Nick and Alan's characterization and relationship is AMAZING - Nick is really not right at all, and it clearly causes Alan angst (so sad when Nick saw Mae kiss Jaime, and Nick was all "huh, that's so weird, I'm glad Alan didn't see because he looks funny at stuff like that"), and if there is a trilogy I wonder how Nick's character will progress. I love the stuff about dancing for demons. And yes, more later.