13 Responses to “Yippee!”

• 1
  mattbucher
  20 September 2005, 7.47 pm

  Congrats! And what appears to be a trade discount! I wonder if an author discussing a published book is akin to an actor discussing a film s/he shot two years ago. I hope you will not grow tired of it.

  What is the cover going to look like?
• 2
  Chuck
  20 September 2005, 8.35 pm

  Congrats!  That’s fantastic!
• 3
  Shhh
  20 September 2005, 8.56 pm

  Woohoo!!!!  This calls for a cocktail (or many)!

  Celebrate every step, baby!
• 4
  Eric S.
  20 September 2005, 9.21 pm

  Congratulations!

  (Guess this means I’ll have to earmark my piggy bank funds for a book purchase.  New sneakers be damned!)
• 5
  liz
  20 September 2005, 9.24 pm

  Wow, that’s great!  Congratulations!  And those are such nice quotes for the book jacket, too - that must feel good!

  …So are you going to be one of those profs who assigns his or her own book for class reading?
• 6
  KF
  20 September 2005, 10.08 pm

  Ugh, no!  The two times I gave any of my students anything of mine to read, I gave it (1) to an individual, who happened to be writing directly about something I’d written about, and (2) very apologetically, saying “you really don’t have to read this if you don’t want to.” I find something about assigning my own stuff really creepy.

  But of course that hasn’t stopped me from using my textbook in my Literary Interpretation class this semester.

  (Oh, yeah, did I mention that my textbook is out?)
• 7
  KF
  20 September 2005, 10.14 pm

  Oh, yeah, and thanks, all!

  I don’t know what the cover’s going to look like yet, Matt, but my editor and I were looking at some really cool images of broken and modified tv sets.  She liked this one; I was pretty partial to this one.  But we’ll see.
• 8
  liz
  21 September 2005, 5.41 am

  Good answer.  I definitely used to get bitter at profs who made us buy and read their stuff, because a) it was like making us give them money (not much, but it’s the principle of the thing), and b) if it sucks (and sometimes it does!), you can’t say anything about it. 

  Congrats on your textbook, by the way.  It looks like a cool concept, and I think there are enough editors to make it acceptable assigned reading for your class :)
• 9
  Steve
  21 September 2005, 5.54 am

  You’ve certainly been a busy bee - nice job!
• 10
  BT
  21 September 2005, 6.45 am

  Fantastic, KF.  Can’t wait to read it!
• 11
  kari
  21 September 2005, 9.56 am

  Hey, KF, that’s awesome!  And you’ve been blurbed!
• 12
  Jason
  24 September 2005, 11.06 am

  That’s awesome - and great blurbs too … Rock on!
• 13
  Jonathan
  30 September 2005, 5.40 pm

  I’m fairly sure that I’ll love reading this—but I’m certain that I’d love far more reading an engaging story that blurs the lines between fiction and non-fiction on how that book came to be published.

  Congratulations!  Now write something for the NYT bestseller list!

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