Today I am a Novelist.

My books arrived today, via the good people at UPS. They sent me 29 copies, which takes care of all the preorders placed before April 15. Any orders placed after that are not going to be signed by me unless it is sent to me by the purchaser. I'm still baffled that anyone wants a signed copy, but I did sign them all and stuff them into shiny red envelopes for sending. Hopefully I'll get a ride to the post office in the next day or so. Any volunteers?

The books themselves look really good. My photo on the back cover is small and looks cute. The bio on the back is good as well, I'd forgotten. And some of you are in the acknowlegements, which I imagine will be a pleasant surprise for you's. The book paper has a nice weight to it and the binding is nice. I'm very pleased with the work Lightening Source did for us. You know what though? I signed all the books on the inside cover. Only then did my buddy Steve mention that I should have signed them on the cover page. So sorry about that everyone, but what's done is done!

The man we call madush69 mentioned the novel on the radio today. I didn't get to hear it because if you can believe this, we don't have a radio anywhere in our apartment. I literally would have had to sit in someone's car in order to hear it, which I didn't. So hopefully Dan is saving me a copy of my mention. Then I can podcast it at my seldom-used podcast site.

I decided to send my own actual Mom a copy of my novel. I went back and forth about this for a long while and finally opted to go ahead and do it. I even put my return address on the envelope, not that she'd use it for anything. I imagine the book will come back to me unopened, but you never know. H thinks I'm sending it to show my Mom that I'm "successful" despite her. I don't feel particularly successful, more lucky. I dunno, I guess this whole getting published thing is not as validating as I thought it would be. I just feel pressure to sell a lot of copies so people will think my books is good. Which is odd, because plenty of people have already told me the book is good. Anyway, I wouldn't mind hearing my own actual Mom's opinion of it, but once I did hear it, it would probably just make me mad.

One week from today is my appearance on Paranormal Women League's Blog Talk Radio. I will, of course, be talking about the book. This show is hosted by the legendary kissdbyagnome.