lkh_lashouts | Blogflog: they really ARE out to get you...

URL: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2007/06/were-number-two.html

LKH in bold, me not.

THE HARLEQUIN is number two on the New York Times List. Yay! And drat.

This time what kept us out of the number one slot was Khaled Hosseini A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS. Khaled Hosseini can join the ranks of Stephen King, Nora Roberts, and Janet Evanovich, in the writers that have kept me just out of the hardback number one spot.

mneiai and I had some amusement about what if it really was a giant conspiracy from other authors to release books around when LKH does, just to keep her out of the much coveted #1 slot. There'd be decoder rings, and Stephen King feverishly hitting refresh on her blog site just so that he can let others know when to set their launch dates.

Jon and I just went into a bookstore to pick up a few things, and there I was, my book, in the number two slot on the wall. There was a lovely display in the window and not only THE HARLEQUIN but also STRANGE CANDY in softback. Very cool. I actually allowed myself a few minutes of standing in front of the window display and revelling in it.

If I ever make it big, I'll probably be one of the first people to stand by a display of my book(s?) and get a photo of me with it...while I'm holding Clarence, my rubber chicken. Because I'm that much of a dork. But this woman has had how many displays for how many books? I mean, does she stand there and tilt her head to one side while her eyes glaze over in a misty, far away look of love (or conjunctivitis) whenever she sees a display of her books? I'm now having visions of LKH in book store, standing like that while she internally monologues about her hard, loveless, lonely life in all its teen-angsty glory. And then all the clerks close up and turn off the lights while she's still standing there.

For anyone who cares, the rest of the blog is A) a big OMG THANKYOU to all the people who wrote in and said, "U R #1 TO MEEE!!!1!" re: The Harlequin's ranking, and B) Why Laurell Doesn't Like Bookstores, But Totally Still Does. Again, I run with my theory that her popularity is on enough of a decline for her to want to cling to as much affirmation of her greatness as she can -- so while she missed out on that precious #1 slot on the NYT, she can still stroke her...ego...at having the bigass displays that plaster her name all over the place.

Maybe having the Team LKH Pep Squad follow her around is starting to get too expensive and the pom-pom bois have to go home now.