Not how I expected to get on Jeopardy!

Nov. 16, 2009, the day I really arrived:

 Hahaha. I started getting facebooks and emails late yesterday afternoon. I was giddy all night. It actually tickled me even more than making the Pub Weekly and Amazon best of 2009 lists.


This was a dream I didn't know I had. I used to play every day, my little sister Mrs Che kept score. I would get a little nuts when I didn't win. I loved that game, the show, Alex. For years, I dreamed of being on the show as a contestant--that was one of my biggest early fantasies. But it never occured to me that I might make it on as a question.

The category was "In The Bookstore," BTW.


And I didn't even mind that they got my name wrong. Sorta. It's on my birth certificate that way, but not the book cover. (Technically, it's not on the front cover at all, but it's inside and on the spine that way.)

I was thinking about emailing my editor, but thought it might be too silly. Then I got  home last night, and he had sent it to me. An editor at the house had tivo'd it (I think), and backed up to snap a photo, and sent it all around the house. Haha. Nice to know we all enjoy stuff like this.