Justine Larbalestier

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Magic or Madness is Boingled

I know you’ve all seen this already—cause, I mean, who doesn’t read boingboing?—but I was boingled. My very first! And what a blush-making boingle it was. And what an immediate impact it had. I woke up to my amazon numbers having zoomed from six figures to below 2,000 and my site getting hammered. Bless you, Cory Doctorow and bless you, boingboing. Here’s my fave thing Cory said about MorM:

Magic or Madness wonderfully mixes a genuinely creepy system of hereditary magic with Australian bush lore, sweet and canny details about New York’s East Village, daily life in Australia, fashion and mathematics, sneaking lectures into dialog and description so subtly you never know they’re there, only that you’re getting the charge of soaking up new knowledge about how the world works.

Tee hee. I am a sneaker of lectures (though not in a shoe way)! I have a major allergy to the infodump (unless it’s written by Kim Stanley Robinson who makes even infodumps sexy) and am always looking for ways to get the necessary info across without breaking the novel or the reader’s brain, so the above fills me with chuffage.

The last few weeks have been chock full of good news. I can’t tell you how bursting I am to tell you the embargoed stuff! Stupid embargo.

Posted by Justine at 5:44, 4 April 2006 under Bloggery, Magic or Madness trilogy, Vainglory | 8 Comments »

Comments

  1. romance gal Says:

    Congratulattions!!!!!!!!!!!! I heart that blog!!!!!!!!

    April 4th, 2006 at 9:56 AM

  2. margo Says:

    “Stupid emargo”–hey, watchit!

    April 4th, 2006 at 2:26 PM

  3. 3. Justine Says:

    Oops! I didn’t mean you! Honest. Not even in a Freudian slip kind of a way. Will fix this instant.

    April 4th, 2006 at 2:29 PM

  4. Rachel Brown Says:

    Congratulations!!!!!!

    …now how do I get Cory Doctorow to write about meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?

    April 4th, 2006 at 4:03 PM

  5. 5. Justine Says:

    I have no idea. Slip him your book at a convention? I can’t imagine him or anyone else not loving it.

    It’s strange isn’t it how much influence boingboing and the other big blogs have? I mean not strange—it’s a fabbo blog—It’s just that I can’t imagine how it’d feel to have your reviews cause an instant boost in sales. I think it would paralyse me. Just as well I’m over here in the obscure part of town, eh?

    April 4th, 2006 at 4:27 PM

  6. Little Willow Says:

    Congrats! :)

    April 4th, 2006 at 6:30 PM

  7. nathaniel Says:

    w00+! congrats, sugar! now if only that book was available in South Africa….

    April 4th, 2006 at 6:41 PM

  8. 8. Justine Says:

    Little Willow & Nathaniel: Gracias!

    Nathaniel: Hmm, you know I have no idea who holds the South African rights . . .

    April 5th, 2006 at 6:41 PM

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