It is here.
And today is a very Kafka-meets-Seinfeld day for me.
I'll be honest. I live by two mottos:
1. I drive at night. I blow things up.
(I think only three people in the world know what that means)
2. Vini, Vidi, Caca -- which means, "I came, I saw, I made shit up about it on my blog."
I never tell real-time truth about myself, so why would I begin to explain the Kafka-meets-Seinfeld reality of my journey through life today?
Truth is something that needs to percolate. That's why I write books. It takes me years to get to the truth, and, by then, it is nothing more than what Bradford Cox would call a "Halcyon Digest" of biased, interpreted images.
Anyway, I digress.
It is here.
Last night, a package came for me. Yeah... I could write paragraphs at the moment about the way we get mail and other deliveries where I live -- like, for example, how we have to wait for the "great thaw" to get anything when there's a snowfall.
Where was I?
Oh. The package.
It contained the FIRST hardback copy of The Marbury Lens.
Sorry everyone else. This is true. The truth. Unpercolated. No Halcyon Digest here. This is the most beautiful hardback book I have ever seen.
I realize this morning that hardback books are not good to sleep with.
That could potentially be a third motto.
And I am still waiting for the Taco Bell people to contact me or my agent, by the way.
I need to say a few things about people in this book, The Marbury Lens, but I'm about to turn into a bug, and will have to continue this tomorrow.
6 comments:
Congrats Andrew!!! We all can't wait to hold it in our hot little hands!
Jen Bigheart @ I Read Banned Books
Wow Andrew! Beautiful! Enjoy the day - it is ok if you just sit around staring at it!
Huzzah. I imagine those corners of the hardcover would be problematic in bed. Though you at least can't get a paper cut like softcovers.
I slept with the Finnish edition of Into the Wild Nerd Yonder. How could I not? It was adorable AND Scandinavian!
Those folks and F&F treat us alright, don't they? :)
They're the best, Julie.
Andrew,
I concur. It is a beautiful, beautiful hardback. I dropped off a job at F&F yesterday and sat with Dave B. in his office, chatting about his excitement (and stress) about getting married on Saturday. Behind me on his bookshelf was the book--we oohed and ahhed for quite a while. It's going to be eye-catching on display in a bookstore. Congratulations.
Anne
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