“A Wizard Alone” has been chosen for inclusion on the New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age” list for 2003. This is so neat in a number of ways…especially since frequent visits to NYPL’s main 42nd Street branch have always been wound together with the “Young Wizards” books. In particular, most of the heavy research for “Deep Wizardry” was done while working there in the “writer’s room”. (For those of you interested in such things, Alone also made the Locus 2002 Recommended Reading List; and the American Librarians’ Association and the Young Adult Library Services Association put “So You Want To Be A Wizard” on one of the 2003 ALA/YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults lists [specifically, the “Beyond Harry and Frodo” list]. So all in all, this has been a really good year for this kind of honor.)
It would be fun to be at the NYPL awards ceremony — I’ve never yet been at a ceremony where I’ve actually won something — but the event turns out to be, uh, today. 🙂 So somehow I don’t think I’m going to make it. A shame, as many other nice people who I’d like to see (such as Neil Gaiman) will be there. Oh well…maybe some other time.
Meanwhile, as regards matters closer to home: I’ve killed the “testbed blog” at http://secondambit.blogspot.com, as the RSS feed from outofambit.blogspot.com seems to be working just fine now.
