Iris, my editor and publisher, just emailed me that Mistress of the Sun was #1 on the Globe and Mail Historical Fiction list! She and Norma, the receptionist at HarperCollins Canada, “enjoyed the sight of it for several minutes,” and then Norma pointed out that Under the Sun by Sandra Gulland was also on the list, further down. “We are mystified by this,” Iris wrote, “an error on someone’s part. But, you have to admit it’s pretty nice to be in two places on one bestseller list.”
I do indeed! I jokingly wrote back that if The Next Novel were titled Under the Sun it could be called a bestseller before it was even written, much less published.
Thank you, Kris!
What wonderful news, and well deserved!
Thanks, Lilian. MISTRESS is off the top-ten now (from what I can tell, on-line), and I don't know if she's in the top-15. The Globe & Mail didn't print the Canadian list last Saturday. I hope that doesn't mean that they're discontinuing it.
Cheers,
Sandra
Congratulations!!