Last Wednesday night, the telephone rang. It was my Berkley Prime Crime editor with news I never expected to hear.
Bookmarked for Death will appear on the New York Times Bestsellers Extended list for mass market paperbacks at #33.
Can you say SPEECHLESS???
My poor editor was sick with the flu, and after hanging up I wondered -- uh-oh, what if he made a mistake. What if he made the call during a fever-induced hallucination? Luckily, his assistant e-mailed me the next morning and assured me it was indeed true -- and she attached the evidence to her note.
Yee-ha!!!!!
A friend of mine was told by his editor that he would never become a bestselling author because his books were less than 100,000 words. Well, I'm the Queen of short novels, so there's no way I ever thought New York Times Bestseller and my name would be uttered in the same sentence. And yet ... there I am--or will be as of February 22nd.
Then, to up the ante, on Saturday I got an e-mail from my friend author Toni L.P. Kelner, telling me that Bookmarked for Death had debuted on the IndieBound (Booksense) Bestseller list at #18.
I've been doing the happy dance for days now. New York Times Bestseller. It's unbelievable.
Hi Lorna! Wow! Congratulations on hitting the NYT! That's fabulous news!!
ReplyDeleteI originally came over here to throw myself on your mercy for getting the name of your book wrong!! Oy! **pounding head against wall** But hey, when I get my web mistress to fix your book title, I'll have her add "New York Times Bestselling Author!" Woo hoo!!
Despite the goof-up, I want to thank you so much (belatedly) for your lovely author quote! Now that my book is out and I can actually hold it in my hands, I'm so honored that your name is right there on the first page. :-)