Thank you for writing Doomsday Book, a SF novel that I can give to my friends who "hate" speculative fiction and watch as they fall into the dark world of the year 1348, losing themselves in this "stunning novel of both suffering and hope." (The Denver Post)
Thank you for Bellwether, which is funny and clever, and which my daughter and I both adored, and now...her boyfriend's reading it too!
Thank you for the marvelous quotes
that preface each chapter of
To Say Nothing of the Dog. (Not to mention getting a reviewer to say "comedy of manners" and "chaos theory" in the same sentence.)
Thank you for taking me completely by surprise in:
Can near death experiences be both funny and profound? They can. (My mom and dad loved this one, too.)
Thank you for writing short stories about Winnebagos, and Shakespeare, and the Schwarzschild Radius, and Hollywood, and the London Blitz, and housewives, and girls' periods (and for naming that one, Even the Queen.)
And thank you for writing a new YA novel, D.A., which Colleen Mondor (Chasing Ray) reviewed here.
Finally, thank you for looking like this.
You make me want to hug you.
***With great thanks to Emily Beeson, of whimsybooks, for coming up with the idea of Tell An Author You Care Day.
