That's a great photo. I'm so glad the reading went well.

Thank you!

I'm slowly getting through your radio interview. I am a terrible listener even if the material is fascinating.

I am not offended. I don't listen to radio interviews by preference if I can read what people said; it's hugely easier for me. Except where music is concerned, I am a much better learner in print than by ear. (It's not even conscious: if I'm reading and someone's speaking to me, I can completely miss it. This was tested as recently as Wednesday, when one of my doctors who spotted me in a waiting room had to say my name two or three times before it registered.) I suspect it's part of the reason I didn't pay attention to movies for years.

But I'm really enjoying it, enjoying the movie camaraderie, as it were; and learning a lot. You sound remarkably like you -- by which, I guess I mean that the cadences of your speech are perhaps not predictable from your writing, but rather made familiar by it.

That is a really neat thing to hear. Thank you for telling me. I am especially glad you are enjoying the interview if listening is not your optimal mode.

Also! My copy of your book arrived yesterday and it is so gorgeous!

I love how this book came out. I love the colors, the font, the accidental matching of cover art to author photo, the blurbs (of which there are even more at the website); it just makes me happy.