Things are happening on the Columbus front...
August 10, 2009
Waiting for Columbus is named to the Indie Pick List in the US. This is really cool. Independent book stores have to nominate the books they like – the ones they think should be on the “pick-list” – and Columbus is in, or on. If that isn’t nice, I don’t know what is. I am in a vacuum of ignorance. I had to be told that being on this list is a fabulous thing. My iPhone count-down thingy says 15 days until Waiting for Columbus is in book stores!
Will be planting three trees this coming weekend in order to offset the gross carbon footprint my July vacation inflicted on the world. Sort of my own Arbour day. Need to add O2 to the atmosphere to balance out the 33-ft motor home monstrosity. I hereby vow that I will NEVER take a vehicle that size onto a highway again. This will be the beginning of the end for the front yard grass. Need drought-resistant, hardy ground cover…Any ideas?
Work on the new book continues slowly.
7 Comments
1. Adam Snider had this to say: Aug 10, 2009 ~ 13:25 ~ #
I’ve got no ideas on the ground-cover front, but if you get any good suggestions, let me know. Sara is looking for answers to more-or-less the same question.
2. Mike Gravel had this to say: Aug 10, 2009 ~ 13:30 ~ #
I’d love to obliterate my front lawn. And the back lawn, for that matter. I HATE mowing the lawn.
3. Ann Kingman had this to say: Aug 10, 2009 ~ 18:20 ~ #
Congratulations on your Indie Next list appearance. It is indeed a wonderful thing. It means that those bookstores that nodded when we told them to read your book are now kicking themselves for not listening to us. And some are digging around in their back room for the advanced reading copy that they just know is there somewhere, so they can quickly read the book before it lands in the store. And it means that those copies that were going to be shelved under “T“in the fiction section are now going on the front table, for some lucky customer to discover for themselves, and to make it more convenient for the bookseller to pick up your book and put it in the hands of another customer who needs reassurance. “I know this is a wonderful book,” the bookseller will say, even if she hasn’t read it herself. “Many of my bookseller friends around the country have named it a favorite, and it’s on my nightstand waiting to be read.”
4. Thomas had this to say: Aug 11, 2009 ~ 12:27 ~ #
Okay, I got a little shiver down my spin when I read this. Thanks so much for writing here, Ann. My eyes are open.
Namaste
5. Mike Gravel had this to say: Aug 11, 2009 ~ 13:52 ~ #
By the way, you can preorder Waiting for C on Amazon. It’s a hair over $20.00 for the hardcover…which is damn good, in my opinion. How about posting some pics of the books, dude? Not just the cover image, but the book itself. Something to whet our appetites?
6. Ariel Gordon had this to say: Aug 19, 2009 ~ 07:11 ~ #
Congrats!
(Also, regarding the ground cover, there was an article about this in the local paper: http://www.purewest.ca/ecograss.htm)