Squee x a Googol
2008 March 12
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Hey, you know that book The Rotund and I have been working on?
WE JUST SOLD IT TO PENGUIN!
And now that that’s out of the way, I should be somewhat less distracted and might actually start, you know, blogging again.
OMG, congratulations! That’s wonderful news, for both of you, for your readers, and for the wider public that will be able to read your work!
Congratulations to you both :-D I am soo happy and excited for you!! I can’t wait to read it :-D
Wow, what awesome news!!!! May this be the first of many!
Congrats!
Oh Congratulations!! Well done!
Congratulations!
Holy awesome!
Squee indeed… can’t wait!
How exciting! Do keep us updated on the progress. I’m really looking forward to reading it!
that is FANTASTIC! I’m really happy for you both — and for all the people who will get to read it.
well done!
CONGRATULATIONS!
CONGRATULATIONS! Well done, you two. I am going to buy it SO HARD. I am going to buy it for EVERY WOMAN I KNOW who needs a Shapely Clue.
AWESOME!
Hearty congratulations. Good writers make good books, and I will be buying :)
Hot shit, that’s awesome.
mazel tov!
Yay!
Can I read it now?
Colin, we have to write it first. :) All we’ve actually sold is a proposal.
And thanks so much, everybody.
Congrats!
Just to show what kind of a nerd I am, I got very confused with the “Penguin” bit… Around my workplace, when we talk about Penguin, this is who we mean: http://www.penguincomputing.com/
Anyway… I got it now. And that’s fantastic!
Congrats!!
Congratulations, Kate!
WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
Mazel tov!
SQUEEEEEEEE!
I’m so excited to buy a million copies!
MAZEL TOV! This is WONDERFUL news. You guys must be so very very happy! When is it due, and when will it come out?
I should be somewhat less distracted and might actually start, you know, blogging again.
Except for the part where you have to, you know, write a book. :)
So, your book party… do you want to have it in Chicago, or what?
HOLY FLIPPING SWEETNESS!!!!!!
Congratulations! :D
Yay! I can’t wait to buy/read it. Congrats to both of you!
:::squeeing:::
Congrats to both of you!!
Except for the part where you have to, you know, write a book. :)
Yeah, but that happens at a much less accelerated (read: glacial) pace than the selling of the proposal, so I’ll be under less pressure. :)
Speaking of which, Miss Conduct, I don’t have those deets yet but will keep you posted.
Congratulations!
Freaking awesome, congrats! Looking forward to details!
What’s the basic proposal, anyway?
Congratulations! I can’t to read it!
A thousand congrats! Can’t wait to read it.
Hooray! I can’t wait to read it.
Also, Penguin books have the cutest logo.
*snoopy dance*
…but my inner pedant thinks you mean Googol.
YESSSSSS!
I’m sure you will let us all know when your monsterpiece is scheduled for publication. (Not too long in the future, I hope.)
Nice!
And you make it look so easy :)
Actually, my inner pedant’s not very inner.
Congrats again, and I hope FJ and SM get book deals too, ‘cos this place rocks.
Woo! Congrats! I’m so excited about being that much closer to getting my hands on it. Way to bring truth to the masses!
hooray! Big, fat congratulations to you both!
Congratulations! I’m sure you’ll keep us all informed, but in the meantime, enjoy the moment!
Congratulations on the fantastic news! Hooray for you both.
Any chance you’ll have a booksigning in Denver?
Squeeeeee and congrats! I stand by my promise to buy eleventybillion copies. :)
Congrats! I hope they paid you a bundle!
Congratulations! The world will be a better place for it!
mazel tov x 100000 + 1. seriously. as a writer i know how long the road ahead of you is, but also know that you’ll make it.
did they give you a tentative pub date yet? or when they hope to put it on the schedule?
I have GOOSEBUMPS over this. Big ol’ fat congratulations!
Ahh, that’s what that faint “eeeeeeeeeee” I’ve been hearing in the distance is. Congratulations! I will buy a bazillion copies and give them to everyone I know!
YAY! Congrats!
(And thank goodness MissPrism mentioned the “googol” thing, because I couldn’t figure out how to do it without sounding like a big ol’ poop-on-the-party type. Whew!)
From editor to not-really-a-dilettante but calling herself that anyway to OMG real author. By way of baby donuts. Good for you for taking the plunge and making it work.
I would make a we are all Kate Harding joke, but this one’s all yours.
WOOOO! That’s amazing, congratulations!!
Wow! Many congrats!
(From an occasional writer who has some idea of how hard it is to get book proposals accepted, therefore appreciates what a great thing this is. I will definitely be buying a copy when it comes out.)
I’ll buy it!!!!
And then I’ll sneak out of WA to your place so you can sign it!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
*dances*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Congratulations congratulations congratulations!!!!
Hooray.
WOW – Penguin, that is a really high quality publishing company. And there’s a chance the book will make it’s way to the UK.
Congratulation you guys, that it SUCH good news. I’m SO excited for you!
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Congratulations to you both! OMGAWESOME
Woo-hoo – congratulations! Can’t wait to buy a copy!
Yeehah! (That’s Montanan for ‘hooray’.)
Congratulations!!! You two rock!
Congratulations!!
That is so awesome! Congratulations!!!!
Right ON!!
What fantastic news!!! Conga-rats to you both!!
Wonderful news! Cannot wait to read it. Yipeeeee for you.
OMG congrats!!!
What’s the name of it and when is it coming out? When can I pre-order? We need info, people!
Not only will I buy it, I’m gonna order copies for our tattoo studio/bookstore when it’s open!
Hearty congratulations!! I can’t WAIT to buy your book and add it to my LibraryThing list! Oo, maybe even as a signed copy!
(Like Emerald, I have some idea of how insane the whole process is; my hat is doubly off to you!)
penguin! way to go penguin!
and you guys, for you know, being awesome. <3
Brilliiiaaaaaaaaaaaaant!!!!
Go you guys! Go Penguin for being forward thinking! Mazel tov all round!
WHOOT WHOOT! Congrats!
Yay! Congratulations and I can’t wait to read the eventual book!! I have a friend who works for Penguin so I’ll have to alert her to be on the lookout for this one. :)
CONGRATS! I’m so happy for you both and I can’t wait to read it!!
CONGRATULATIONS! That is the best woot I’ve had all day. :) Penguin is pretty high-falutin’.
Brilliant!! Congratulations to you both. Can I pre-order by the carton and start leaving them around the city for people to find? :)
Congratulations to you both! So great that this will be getting out into the big wide world in a big wide way!
Rock on!
So, what’s the time frame you’re thinking of from now until we can get the book in our chubby fat hands?
Congratulations! That’s great!
So fantastic! Can’t wait to buy it. :)
What everybody else said!!!! I can’t wait to own my own first edition.
WOOT!
Yaaaaay! Go you!
Congrats!!!
This is such fabulous news! Congratulations to you both. You deserve it. And I’m a greedy little bitch*, so be sure to tell us when we can get our hands on it. I can’t wait to sit in a coffee shop wearing my baby + donuts t-shirt reading this book.
*not really. or wait. maybe i am. i am fat, after all.
Fanfuckingtastic! This is wonderful news.
You know, I must say, this is a heck of a way to drum up readership in advance! Let me add my voice to the Congratulations Chorus… and really, no pressure getting it done… it’s not like bunches of people are waiting for its release or anything. :)
CONGRATS!!! That is freakin’ fabulous!!
So, your book party… do you want to have it in Chicago, or what?
I vote YES. :o)
That’s pretty gosh darn awesome.
I must be the NYC spoiler who says that in a short time frame, you will be more distracted, not less. Editor-requested revisions. Book tours. Promotional photos. Parties!
So take full advantage of your breather to bask in the awesomeness.
Awesome!!!!
OMG! O. M. G. I am so incredibly proud of you two. Please, please launch it in Canada too. The great thing about signing with Penguin is you practically have built-in international distribution!
How completely awesome! Congratulations!!!!
Congrats, dude. Now I know what absolutely everyone I know is getting for xmas this year….
WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Can I pre-order ten copies please?
amazing!! Can’t wait to see it in print :D
Wonderful news! Um – I’m sure you’ve already said, somewhere, but what *kind* of book is it?
Trying again — anyone else having WordPress trouble trying to give the authors compliments?
Now I can say I knew about someone famous, BEFORE they became famous!
I will buy the book for myself and a ton of other people I know who need it very badly and won’t listen to me!
Fantastic! Absolutely cannot wait for more information.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! Congrats! :D
Do you tire of hearing “congratulations” and “yay” and such after a hundred such iterations? I can’t imagine you would! So, one more HUZZAH from me. :-) I’m very much looking forward to reading it (and to more frequent SP posts).
Kelly
Fantastic news, Kate! And couldn’t happen to a more deserving person. Congratulations!
Kick Ass Girl!!!!! Way to go — I can’t wait to hear more about it and then go buy a gajillion copies!!!
AWESOME news! Congratulations :) But how are you going to have time for blogging now when you’re gonna be writing a flipping fantastic book?!?!
So happy for you. That is huge.
Holy hell!!!
Way to go!
oh yes i second what fatgirlonabike said.
i too shall buy many many many copies and give them out to everyone i know. :) woooohooooo!!!! this is the best news ever.
Whooooo!!!!!! Congrats Kate and TR!!
That is so awesome! Whooooo!!!!!
This is so amazing. When I first started reading this blog months ago, I remember thinking, “man if this woman wrote a book I would read the fuck out of it.” It seriously makes me feel better about the world that y’all are going to be published. Congratulations!
Fanbloodybrilliant! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!! :)
Well done (((BIG HUG)))
HOLY F! that’s awesome! congratulations!
Holy wow! Congratulations!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!! *throws confetti*
You both deserve this. :)
Fantastic! I’m so thrilled for you both and thrilled for the whole FA movement. This one’s going on the coffee table, I can just feel it!
Congratulations! I hope you will consider creating a music playlist for the book as part of my blog’s Book Notes series when the book si published.