Hello!

[msagara]

I've discovered one unfortunate thing about writing, or attempting to write, two novels concurrently. I'm incapable of writing anything else. I finish writing for the day, and any creativity, any wit, and most of my outrage (okay that last might be a bit of an overstatement), has evaporated, leaving me strangely silent. This would be why I have been absent; I stare at the screen and cannot think of one interesting thing to say.

But! .

Cast in Fury made the extended NYT trade paperback fiction list for the 19th of October. My editor emailed me with the news on Thursday. I work at the store on Friday, and when I got home from work, I discovered these:



Sent by my editor and Tracey Langmiur, from Luna, to help celebrate this fact. They are really very nice, in that picture-doesn't-do-them-justice way.

Comments

[robyn.livejournal.com]

Hi Michelle,
I feel like this is as good a place as any to finally write my big gushing note to you about how much I love your books. I started reading the Cast series in December, and I was caught up through "Fury" just a couple weeks later. In reading those books, I was completely sucked into the pages; the world you painted within those pages was so vivid and spectacular that I recall those weeks spent reading as a kind of waking dream. And I wished that I would never wake up. I suppose that's why this genre of literature is often referred to as "fantasy", and yet the word does not even begin to describe the way your writing touches readers. The fallibility of your characters, the realness of their mannerisms and their emotions, reaches out to the reader in such a profoundly intimate way. Indeed, waiting for Cast in Silence is much the same as waiting for dear friends to return from a long journey -- one feels a profound sadness at their absence, and looks longingly toward their return. Your writing has touched my life in a very special way, and I just wanted to express my admiration for you and for the fantastic tales that you write, which I feel so privileged to experience as a reader.
One of your many fans,
Robyn