sandramcdonald (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sandramcdonald) wrote,@ 2008-04-23 14:09:00 |
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Entertainment Weekly and Me
From the mailbag, Jeff from St. Augustine noted he was happy to see THE OUTBACK STARS listed in Entertainment Weekly recently as one of the top 20 best-selling paperbacks. Entertainment Weekly! I hadn't heard that. Obviously Thad, my personal assistant/pool boy/publicity sidekick, had fallen down on the job. Off I went to the library. Unfortunately it was closed because of budget cuts. Luckily for me, I practiced wall-scaling in boot camp. The security system was harder to disarm but never underestimate a determined genre writer. The trickiest part was coming down through the skylight a la Mission Impossible, because my legs and arms were flailing everywhere and I boinked my head on self-checkout machine. Eventually the ninja librarians caught me and the police were called in, but everyone was so delighted for my success that I'll probably only have do community service rewinding the videotapes people turn in without, you know, rewinding them.
Ah hem. Anyway. Entertainment Weekly, April 18th issue. The chart is actually the Top 20 paperbacks from Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore in Minneapolis but there I am with Jim Butcher, Ray Feist, Kelley Armstrong, Sharon Miller and Steve Lee, and many others. Minneapolis is now my new favorite city.
If anyone has a copy of that issue, I'd be obliged :-) The new one is on the stands I checked.
From the mailbag, Jeff from St. Augustine noted he was happy to see THE OUTBACK STARS listed in Entertainment Weekly recently as one of the top 20 best-selling paperbacks. Entertainment Weekly! I hadn't heard that. Obviously Thad, my personal assistant/pool boy/publicity sidekick, had fallen down on the job. Off I went to the library. Unfortunately it was closed because of budget cuts. Luckily for me, I practiced wall-scaling in boot camp. The security system was harder to disarm but never underestimate a determined genre writer. The trickiest part was coming down through the skylight a la Mission Impossible, because my legs and arms were flailing everywhere and I boinked my head on self-checkout machine. Eventually the ninja librarians caught me and the police were called in, but everyone was so delighted for my success that I'll probably only have do community service rewinding the videotapes people turn in without, you know, rewinding them.
Ah hem. Anyway. Entertainment Weekly, April 18th issue. The chart is actually the Top 20 paperbacks from Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore in Minneapolis but there I am with Jim Butcher, Ray Feist, Kelley Armstrong, Sharon Miller and Steve Lee, and many others. Minneapolis is now my new favorite city.
If anyone has a copy of that issue, I'd be obliged :-) The new one is on the stands I checked.
