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Firsts!

As I said before, even if in the unlikliest of circumstances I get to be rich and famuz, I will never get these little firsts again. Yesterday I got an email from a complete stranger who wrote and told me that they'd just finished "Standish" and how much they enjoyed it, and whether there was going to be a sequel, particularly one with Fleury in, as he was their favourite character.

I know that in fandom I've had a lot of very nice feedback, and that several fandom friends have very kindly praised the book, but this was ... I can't explain it... It's the tiny tiny equivalent of someone stopping you in the street and saying "Oh - aren't you Erastes? I DID enjoy Standish."

I have to admit that I've never emailed an author and thanked him/her for their work, (mainly coz most of them are dead!!) but I am going to make an effort now. I wonder if the people I'm now going to target (GRRM, Diana Gabaldon) are so blase that they now take fanmail for granted. If I get a million others or if I never get another one, I'll treasure this one for ever! *clings* am now waiting for my first professional review and the first customer review on amazon. *stares at screen in bichon frise manner*

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It's very bunnying too, as I'm now plotting "The Further Adventures of Fleury" dubaiyan will be pleased about this, at least!! I think that after the gloom and angst-ridden guilt of "Junction X" I shall need a good Gay Regency Romp through the New World with an outrageously badly behaved Irish Highwayman with an eye (and other bodily parts) for pretty men.

Stand!! and Deliver!!