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After waking up and having the first thought in my head be, "If I don't have hot water I'm going to resort to violence," it is a bit shocking and entirely delightful to find a book trailer for A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend.

(I don't have hot water, as it happens, but I have warm water sufficient for a very brief shower).

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* Just got the word that LOVE STORY will be published in the Netherlands. My first sale of translation rights!

* Had a meeting today where I booktalked Holly Black's WHITE CAT. One of my favorite booktalks I've done because the emotional connection is so up-front and vivid. Not all great books can have their greatness conveyed in 2 minutes, and all too often the high-concept shiny books don't live up to their premise, but White Cat is the exception. By the way, can we have a moratorium on "Read ________ to find out!" in booktalks? You don't care what happens next until you're already invested in the story.

* I'm very very close to finishing up my read-through of SPARKS AND ASHES. Then a pretty light revision, and then it will be out of my hands. It's time for it to be out of my hands.

* Went to Catherynne Valente and Seanan McGuire's reading for the New York Review of Science Fiction Tuesday evening. Valente read from Habitation of the Blessed, a chapter which was utterly enchanting and pulled me into the book right away, and McGuire read from a short story about mad scientists. Thumbs up!

* I am thinking about the next book. This is something that always happens when the current WIP is off -- or almost off -- my desk. Nothing concrete as yet. Just thinking.

My book comes out tomorrow! I hear that it has already started shipping from Amazon and turning up in bookstores but I haven't yet seen it in the wild myself.

( Video podcast...sometime! )

( Release party tomorrow! )

So... last week when I said :

Also it will be hilarious if one of the major review journals gives a starred review to a book called Totally Sweet Ninja Death Squad. Not like that will ever happen, hah hah.

I actually knew about this. But now I can tell you.

From Kirkus Reviews:

★ Horner, Emily A LOVE STORY STARRING MY DEAD BEST FRIEND (Starred review)
(Kirkus Reviews)
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