Review from Charles de Lint in F&SF Magazine!
Today I checked my email and found a message with the subject line: "review from F&SF July 2007 issue attached". Needless to say, it caught my eye. I clicked on it. OMG... The news comes in four parts:
1) CHARLES DE LINT READ INTO THE WILD!
2) CHARLES DE LINT LIKED INTO THE WILD!!
3) CHARLES DE LINT WROTE A NICE REVIEW OF INTO THE WILD!!!
4) CHARLES DE LINT'S NICE REVIEW OF INTO THE WILD WILL APPEAR IN THE JULY ISSUE OF THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION IN HIS "BOOKS TO LOOK FOR" COLUMN!!!!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
DEEP BREATH, SARAH.
STEP AWAY FROM THE CAPS LOCK.
Charles de Lint is one of my all-time favorite writers. He's the author of Jack the Giant-Killer -- one of my absolute favorite novels and one of the best fairy-tale retellings EVER -- as well as The Onion Girl, Dreams Underfoot, Widdershins, Tapping the Dream Tree, Greenmantle, Yarrow, Memory and Dream, The Ivory and the Horn, The Blue Girl... He is a master of stories in which cool-magical-things-happen-in-the-real-world. AND HE LIKED MY BOOK... AND WROTE NICE THINGS ABOUT IT IN A COOL MAGAZINE LIKE F&SF...
CALM DOWN. BREATHE. SERIOUSLY NOW SARAH, PUT THE CAPS LOCK AWAY.
A year ago, if someone had told me that Charles de Lint... There is no way I would have believed them. No way.
After I came down from my initial hysteria, I noticed that my fellow Class-of-2k7er, Melissa Marr, also got a wonderful review in the very same column. Eeeeeeeeeee for Melissa! Today is a cool day.
Now here's my dilemna. I really, REALLY, want to tell you all what Charles said, but the magazine's not out yet. They sent me an advance copy of the review as a courtesy, and I doubt they want me spilling it all over the internets before the actual magazine comes out. Right? So I should wait to post it... Right??? I think I'm right about this, but if anyone has a compelling counter-argument, please do tell! Otherwise, I'll be sure to post a link to the review as soon as the magazine comes out.
Now I think I need to lie down...
Labels: Reviews, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
posted by Sarah Beth Durst @ 7:50 PM
7 comments
7 Comments:
Congratulations! I love his books as well. The Blue Girl is my favorite of his.
STACY: Thanks so much! I adored The Blue Girl too. Just thinking about it makes me want to reread it.
Congratulations, Sarah! I saw your link on lj--I have a brand new live journal now--please come visit me.
About your question: I wouldn't post it until the magazine is out. Don't want to step on any important toes, you know???
Congratulations! That's great news.
Instead of posting the review, maybe you could just post your favorite two-word phrase from the review. Just to wet our whistles.
HEIDI: Thanks! Your new LJ looks great. Yay for Coe winning the LA Times Book Award for YA!!!
Ryan: Okay, here are three words from Charles de Lint: "author who delivers." :) The rest will have to wait until the July F&SF Magazine comes out, which I think actually happens at the end of May!
Wow, Charles de Lint. That's amazing. Congratulations, Sarah!
I agree on not posting it before the magazine comes out.
SHEILA: Thanks so much! I want to do the Snoopy Dance of Joy every time I think about it. :)
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