Locus

I finally got around to buying the May 2008 issue of Locus. I flipped through a copy last week, but failed to notice page 9.

Page 9 has the Rainforest Writers Village workshop photo, including mcjulie among the, say, 30 people; they even spelled her name right in the caption! Overall, a very nice page for Bellingham. In the same photo as Julie McGalliard are Keffy Kehrli, Joy Ralph and C0r1n Inman. Elsewhere on the page are mentions of Ken Scholes and Greg Cox.

Unrelated, but in the same issue: I contemplated the 2007 bestselling titles, as reported by Publishers Weekly. Stephen King's Lisey's Story sold more than 700,000 copies in mass-market paperback. Not surprising. Good for him. cf JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows hardcover, which sold more than 13 million. 13 million. Reading over the entire list, I am comforted by the high sales of children's books. Because, otherwise, I'd believe that no one reads anymore, and there's no future for books.