Today was book review day in the USA Today. I love to read their book review. Today was especially interesting about the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a novel that's transcended time. It's also a movie that's done the same.
I found it interesting that Harper Lee never wrote another novel. Never. And she's even turned down Oprah for an interview. The rest of us writers can't wait to be invited by Oprah. I would never dream of turning her down! I had a fascinating time on the book page.
And then something else caught my eye. Something odd, handwritten on the New York Times Bestseller list. #11 - One Clown Short by Linda C. Wright.
You see Richard gets up much earlier than I. He gets the paper around four in the morning. Ginger, also being sound asleep much prefers that she be able to get the paper from the driveway each morning, a habit she learned as a puppy, but Richard enjoys reading without teeth marks. He reads it and then leaves it in the living room for me. He snuck me on the list when no one else was looking.
I'm saving the paper from the day I made it onto the bestseller list as all proud writers would. Maybe 50 years from now one of my novels will be celebrating an anniversary. Maybe Oprah will be calling me soon after all. No matter what, in Richard's eyes I'll always be a best seller.
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