Came home to an email from Ursula K. Le Guin—yes, the Hugo, Nebula, Pushcart, and Newbury (and many more) Award-winning author of The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea series, that Ursula K. Le Guin!—with an awesome cover blurb for Returning My Sister’s Face:
“Whimsy and malice—yes—also mystery, a very female sensuality, and wit. An elegant and entertaining book.”
Is it possible to die from too much squee?
Oh SQUEEE indeed! 🙂
(Er, sorry for the bad first try. Finger slipped to enter key too soon, then to wrong icon … I should probably go to bed!)
Uh . . . wow.
I mean, like . . . wow.
Did I already say wow?
Wow.
*nod nod!* I’m totally spazzing between omigodomigodomigod and Eeeeee!
Congratulations! I squee for your good fortune!
Dan
Thank you!
Wow!
Did I say wow?
WOW! Congrats!
Thank you! I’m so totally floating.
Oh, WOW!
Congratulations!!!
Kick ass! Talk about a lovely high water mark for your career. Huzzah!
Huzzah!
Thanks, sweetie!
I will revive you long enough for you to die of squee a second time. That is totally awesome, Eugie!
Might need to make it a third time. Death by squee works for me!
Very cool, Eugie! *g*
Thanks, Marshall! I’m so thrilled I can barely type
!
Wow excellent!
Congratulations!
Thanks, sweetie!
Wow! That’s fabulous! I squee for you! 🙂
Thank you! The world is a haze of delirious squeeage…
*beaming and squeeing along with you!!!*
*hugs and happy dancing*
Holy moley! You have arrived.
Hee! I dunno about that. It’s more like I had a really good out-of-body gander at the finish line while sprinting full out.
Excellent!!
it may be very dangerous. I suggest you take only brief peeks at the blurb in order to acclimate yourself to your new everyday level of squee.
The test-with-toe approach rather than the “cannonball!”-*sploosh!* one, huh? But think of all the missed opportunities for delirious hyperventilation and swoonings! *squee. pantpant squeee…thud*
Medic! We need smelling salts and a bathtub book stat! Bob, start filling the bubble bath.
Veryw odnerful :). Your writing is appreciated by the very best in the business as well as odds and sods like me :).
wow!
Wow!
No matter how tempting this pinnacle moment is, DON’T go toward the light!
Huge congrats — I am incredibly jealous of and all tingly for you at the same time. Superbad!!!
But…but, the light’s so shiiiiiny.
ZOMG so much congrats!!!!
OMGOMGOMGSQUEEEE!!!!
Wow. Squee for sure. Now I’m less than 6 degrees of separation away from Ursula LeGuin.
:~)
That is fabulous!!!
Oh. My. God.
That is AMAZING!
Congratulations! That is awesome!
How can one not squee at a time like this? Big congrats.
Wow!
That is so freaking cool!
Wow! Congrats!
ZOMG! That is beyond fabulous!
Wow.
Holy crap! That’s awesome, Eugie!
EEEE! OMG, that’s wonderful, Eugie! Congratulations!!! 😀
Awesome!
Wow…I would be over the top too!
Oh…
*blows on fingers, inspects nails*
I don’t know…
*squints up to sky, as if gauging whether it will rain*
It’s not like the superbness of your writing is unknown, you know…
Who is this LeGuin person again? And why is she coming so late to the Eugie Adoration Club?
*one more diffident glance at fingernails*
Well, ok, I’ll contribute a squeeee to the kitty – but I still say this LeGuin is a latecomer…
That’s so awesome! Medically, there is no record of anyone dying from a squee overdose. Trust me, I’m a doctor.
That’s not true, I’m not a doctor. That probably hurts the chances of you trusting me, doesn’t it? You think I’d learn to never lead with the ‘I’m a doctor’ thing.
Congrats, and —
Happy
Birthday!