Release Date!
Yes, that long-awaited day is here, the most important day in the career of a budding novelist: the release date of his or her first novel. Ah, yes, from the moment the novelist awakens, it is roses and strawberries, kudos and laud. Let's peek inside the world of a budding novelist, and share this most wonderful of days:

7:30 am - Awakened to gentle music
7:45 am - Forearm and knuckle massage
8:00 am - Write ten words on next opus - can't disappoint readers
8:05 am - Trans-Atlantic interview with British fans - bloody good time
8:30 am - Bath of scented water
9:00 am - Limo arrives for start of book tour
9:05 am - Body guards escort novelist to limo; one fan bloodied
9:30 am - Arrive first book store
9:35 am - Use mechanical book signing machine to sign ten books at a time
9:45 am - Mobbed by crowd of fans
10:00 am - Stop at the retirement home of ex-English teacher
10:05 am - Note that you can to split infinitives to Mrs. Graves, see page 124
10:30 am - Arrive second book store
10:35 am - Sign body part of adoring fan
10:36 am - Erase and sign again
10:37 am - Erase and sign again
11:00 am - Radio interview with Howard Stern
11:30 am - Lunch with Nobel Literature Prize committee
12:30 pm - Write ten more words on next opus
12:35 pm - Call agent, demanding Mongolian Rights be negotiated immediately
1:00 pm - Take Hollywood's call
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That's right! Singularity's Ring is out today, and that is exactly how my day is going. :)

Also released today is fellow sfnovelist Stephen Leigh's new book A Magic of Twilight. I'm sure his day is going just like I described above.