Oh, and for the record...

[rj_anderson]

With regard to my previous post, I should have explained that I love and respect a great many "children's" and "young adult" books (not to mention having a large personal collection of them!) and that my resistance to the idea that Knife might be YA wasn't due to any lack of respect for that genre. It was more to do with my original ideas and expectations for the book, most of which didn't even make it onto paper anyway, so yeah, I really am a ninnyhammer that way.

So thanks ot all of you who wrote with encouragement and congratulations. I'm really thrilled about this opportunity and looking forward to seeing if and how it pans out...!

Comments

[kerravonsen]

I didn't congrats before, but here - CONGRATULATIONS! Unless of course it's too soon to say so. Many a slip 'twixt cup and lip, and all that. But a Real Live Editor, that's promising.

(mutters)And it's about time too. The World has been Missing Out.

(sends encouraging waves in Rebecca's direction)

And I like YA too. I have hopes, what with the HP phenomenon, that the publishability of YA is better than it was ten years ago.