Rose really brought a stellar group of people together--what a wonderful collection.

I am really, really pleased and proud to be part of it.

And I remember your saying how this fictive kin turned out in fact to be real, almost as if you wrote him into existence.

I don't want to say it's the strangest experience I've had with a piece of my own writing, because I'm sure it's not and the statement is the kind of superlative that always tempts fate, but it was pretty weird. I like it, though.

They've done the cover of a novella I copyedited (a very rare venture into fiction editing for me)

Oh, lovely! May I ask what and whose it is?