With readers like mine, it's easy to have an interesting blog. Here's a tip from reader extraordinaire... Randy_B.
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Wow. I did not expect this. This is the honor of a lifetime, and I’m only 46! Thank you so much to the readers who thought Nettle & Bone was worthy of a Hugo.
No book gets written alone, of course. Thank you to my editor Lindsey Hall, the whole crew at Tor, my agent Helen, and my husband Kevin, who makes sure that I have actual meals and clean underwear and so forth.
There are a lot of serious and heavy things I could say right now, and probably I should. But other people have said them better and more movingly than I ever will. So instead I want to share something wonderful and disgusting and maybe a little inspiring with you.
There is a species of water beetle that regularly gets swallowed whole by frogs. And while there’s a lot of things you can do to keep from being eaten, once you’re inside a frog, your options are severely limited. Generally you get digested. But this particular species of beetle said “You know, I bet there’s another way.” And it started walking. In fact, it walked through the frog’s digestive tract and out the back end.
This is 100% true, you can look it up. 19 out of 20 of these beetles will simply walk out of the frog, unharmed. It usually takes them about an hour, although one beetle speed-ran the frog in five minutes, which I’m sure was very exciting for the frog.
The moral of this story, if there is one, is that no matter how dark the situation, there is always a way through. And there’s always a light at the end of the frog."
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