And just to prove how weird Amazon can be, we're currently #82 in Graphic Novels. Um, yeah. Graphic novels. One behind "Green Lantern Rebirth" and one ahead of a JLA deluxe collection.

Of course, what really makes this interesting is that the Kindle version is at #88.

I wish I knew what ranking it would be if they were combined.

ETA: And within the Kindle store, it's riding at the portentous ranking of 3,113.

Also, I am large with the A Separate Peace hate. In fact, I feel rather spiteful about it, and happy whenever someone says something bad about it, which is an oddly personal reaction to the book.

My feelings for A Separate Peace can be summed up by a parody I wrote (I think for class), where the slight twitch of the branch isn't enough to dislodge Phineas, so he has to jump up and down on the branch a few times to dislodge him (and I think I even had him need to stamp on Phineas' hands).

I had Jilli sign a bookmark, as I don't think I will be able to make it to the NY signing. Too much going on at work right now.

That photo from the signing is ADORABLE.

ETA: Do you guys market the curlybat table runners? Because WANT.

I bought TWO copies of GCS today! I am giving one to my co-worker whose daughter is quote, "Going Goth". YAY BOOK!!

I've only had time to skim the intro so far, and the book is making me wish I had more of a personality in high school. I was never confident enough in what I liked to develop a coherent look, and the result is as an adult I present myself far more generically than I'd really like to. (And with a mortgage and a toddler, I have too much debt to completely redo my wardrobe anyway. Woe is me!)

I have decided I'm going back to the blue hair very soon though. I'm tired of this natural look.

I was never confident enough in what I liked to develop a coherent look, and the result is as an adult I present myself far more generically than I'd really like to.

Jessica and I are the same in this regard. It's only been recently - like since having Emeline - that I've started to go a little more funky in my look and a little less homogenous.

I was a punk in high school but I had a big crush on a... well we didn't call them goths back then, she was a 'doom & gloom' kid.

I was also an amorphous lump in high school. It wasn't until college, when I went to a totally different town where no one knew me that I had the confidence to become someone new.

I am giving one to my co-worker whose daughter is quote, "Going Goth"

That's a great idea! I shall purchase one for my cow-orker's daughter (this is the one where the dad found me at work and said "I bet you listen to Evanescence. Do you think it's OK for a teenage girl to listen to?").

I didn't know I was goth, but I was, as much as I could manage. I would love to dress in a combo of 1940s and goth now, but I am actually a Lazy!Goth.

I'm a total late bloomer. It's only been in my thirties that I've had the confidence to unapologetically be who I am-- whether it's a slob on writing days or to the nines when the occasion warrants, because, as Jilli says in her video, it makes me happy.