A couple of days ago I discovered a leak under my bathroom sink. My hot rollers were wet, as was the sweatshirt for my morning run, among other things. My husband couldn’t figure out where the leak was coming from (but at least there was the water to prove I wasn’t just making up the honey-do job for him) so there wasn’t really even a way to fix it.
Later that same day I discovered the bolt at the bottom of the tank of the toilet in that same bathroom has rusted through and is creating a dripping leak. The tank is going to have to be replaced, and part of the linoleum has peeled up behind there, and it’s just a pain and a stupid mess.
But NONE OF THAT MATTERS!
Why? Because last night I got online and had been alerted that my book, BIG IN JAPAN, has been named as…(drum roll, please!)
ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2012 on ksl.com.
Woot!
I cannot express how exciting this is! And how much it totally compensates for the irritations of plumbing!
You know, writing that book was a labor of love. It didn’t just appear in full form on the page. It was three years of intense focus, including multiple rewrites from the blank page up. I had great help from beta readers and editors. So, to have it recognized for something as sweetly amazing and flattering as that, I can’t say how pleased it makes me. I kind of get that whole Sally Field speech at the Academy Awards now.
SO…thank you to ksl.com and to everyone who has bought and read the book. Or even just bought it and put it in their to-be-read pile. Maybe this announcement will make some of you less hesitant to actually crack the cover of a book about a sumo wrestler, bless his fat Texan heart.
