goncourt is announced

Lighten up, Stewey...

"If you have sent me email and not received a reply, it is because you are among an alarming number of people who (a) don't know their email return address; (b) can't spell their email return address; (c) don't have an email return address; or (d) have not properly installed an email address in the return address slot of the email software being used. It would be very helpful, not just to me, but to everyone you email, if you would set up your software properly.

Also, I've never read his "work" but I love this give and take he has in an the interview on his site he refers potential emailers to:

Q. Why do you ask, in the introduction to the email function on your website, that readers not write to you with corrections?

A. Because, by the time the readers read the book and write to me, the process is already out of my hands. If they find some large, important error and send it to my publishers, perhaps a correction can be made for the next printing, but that doesn’t often happen. The book is going to remain pretty much as it’s first published, errors and all. Also, readers who like to report errors to me always seem to think they’re the first to notice, when, in fact, I may have already heard from hundreds of others on the same subject. I sometimes make errors such as changing a character's name from book to book, something which no one needs to point out to me, since that has been done many times already. Too many readers seem to belong to the AHA! Police. In short, save time for yourself and me, and DO NOT write to me about errors and corrections. If you do, I'll simply refer you to this interview.

Q. At the end of one book, Arrington has given birth to a girl, but at the beginning of the next, it's a boy. Why?

A. See the above answer.

Perhaps proving Stewey's point about idiots with computers, this comment makes a lot more sense when paired with the blog entry immediately above.

heh.