In which people just amaze me

No, really. I've mentioned before how wonderful Nora Roberts has been to me, and I say nice things behind her back a LOT. Now I have someone else to praise loudly. Yesterday a reader alerted me to the fact that Carolyn Hart did something VERY nice in the latest installment of her hugely successful Death on Demand series--she mentioned me. IN HER BOOK. Her bookselling sleuth, Annie, is ringing up a customer who is buying an assortment of "wonderful new writers" and I am listed as one of them. How fabulous is that?!?

The fact that my name is in print in Laughed 'Til He Died is pretty fantastic. (I think my Tweet referred to yesterday as a steaming pile of awesome, covered in awesome sauce, with a six-layer awesome torte for dessert.) But what's extraordinarily lovely is that I also get--entirely as a bonus, you understand--a very good lesson in how to be successful. And by that I don't mean how to acquire success, but how to WEAR it. Nora Roberts and Carolyn Hart top the bestseller lists regularly. They could just sit home and count their money and break in their diamond shoes, I expect. But they don't. Instead they do really nice things for people they have NO reason to help except that they ARE nice. I think it says something huge about a person's character when they are gracious to people who can't help them, so in my book, these two women are about as wonderful as it gets.