Links! (And a brief update, but really: Links!)

Yesterday evening, I read and talked and signed and answered questions at the library in the little town where I grew up, which was wonderful and reunion-ish.  I then proceeded to have extremely vivid and realistic dreams about the event, and the result is that I think I may have only dreamed that certain people were there.  (Like the lady carrying the large white poster with nothing on it but a row of blank lines, as you'd make for a game of Hangman.  I don't think she was really there.  But I do wonder what word she was thinking of.)

Current draft and I are riding a seesaw.  I'm making continuous, creaky trips up and down between doubting and loving the MS, which is pretty much par for the course at this point.  Sigh.

And now: Links!

I'm a few days late with this (and Cynthia is so speedy that there have already been several interviews posted after mine), but I was recently interviewed on Cynsations, the amazing blog of YA author Cynthia Leitich Smith, who does slews of debut authors a massive favor with her "New Voices" feature.  You can find mine at cynleitichsmith.livejournal.com/286833.html  or cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-voice-jacqueline-west-on-books-of.html.  Cynthia -- you rock. 

Yesterday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published this review of The Shadows: www.post-gazette.com/pg/10278/1092632-369.stm.  I can't tell you how much I appreciate it when reviewers discuss the book in such depth and detail.  Two more very happy-making reviews can be found at Not Another Book Blog (vancie917.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/the-books-of-elsewhere-the-shadows-by-jacqueline-west/) and Books4Ever (kamannix.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/the-book-of-elsewhere-by-jacqueline-west/).  

Each time a breeze or a car passes down my street, I get to hear one of my favorite sounds in the world: the papery clatter of dry leaves swirling against the curbs.  Oh, October.  I wish there were more of you.