Shake those cookies, Lucille!

[rolanni]

Exciting day here at the Cat Farm. Not only did Eddie the FedEx Guy deliver us a nice, tasty box of Mouse and Dragon mass market paperbacks, but Mozart and I finished up with the manuscript-thus-far of Necessity’s Child. Thinks now need to be thought.

As if the above weren’t enough! excitement! We learn today (we could have learned yesterday, if I had bothered to open my email) that Ghost Ship, with nine other worthy novels, was a Borderlands Books hardcover bestseller for September. Here’s the list; lotsa good reading there:

1. Reamde by Neal Stephenson
2. A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin
3. Legacy of Kings by C.S. Friedman
4. Tears of the Sun by S.M. Stirling
5. Departure by Neal Asher
6. Rule 34 by Charles Stross
7. Embassytown by China Mieville
8. Magician King by Lev Grossman
9. Ghost Ship by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
10. How Firm a Foundation by David Weber

Now, exciting as bestsellerdom is, something Even! More! exciting happened.

I got blacklisted.

Yeah. I’m pretty proud.

Oh, you want to know what I got blacklisted for?  For yesterday’s Disambiguation Notice.  By, yeah, the “Write Agenda”/”Writer Be Aware” people, whoever they are.  Apparently, they have this list of authors who have hurt their feelings, and they send the list to librarians with a letter advising the library not to buy the work of anyone on the list.

Wonder how that’s working out for them?

Anyhow, if you missed the whole backstory, you can read about it at Writer Beware, at Whatever, and at In the Labyrinth.

Oh, and the title of this evening’s post?  Somebody over on Facebook made a request for B-52 lyrics, but yanno?  With the B-52s it was never about the lyrics, it was all about the delivery.

Here, have some Love Shack.

 

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your blacklisting!

Blacklisted

[bookmobiler.livejournal.com]

You'd think that they would realize that librarians LIKE list of controversial authors. They tend to use them as shopping lists! :)

BTW, is Steve jealous?

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

EEEEE NEW CS FRIEDMAN YAY

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's a pretty good recommendation! Maybe we should make up a button for people to add to their web pages -- "I was blacklisted by Write Agenda"? Then we can tell people to look for the blacklist label, when you want the very best?

Y'a know, we're not being properly crushed by this.

[saruby.livejournal.com]

Truly a badge of honor to be blacklisted by this group. Maybe it would just be easier for them to blacklist the entire SFWA membership. At least it provides a nice list of authors to check out.

You are now Officially Infamous.

[(Anonymous)]

As opposed to quietly, unofficially, subversively infamous.

Mazel Tov!
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks
PS I'm trying to spread the word about this to my writers....

[blythe025.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm always amazed at the way some people behave. I mean, I just don't get what this does for them, what they get out of this.

[roseaponi.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I think Jim Hines is also trying for the coveted blacklist.

Mouse and Dragon

[doccolt.livejournal.com]

Does this open the possibility of Signed Copies?
Sam

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on being able to add blacklisted to your curriculum vitae. :D