I got some email today from the folks at Phoenix Comics down in Capitol Hill. Seems the four books I brought down there a couple weeks ago are already sold out, and they’d like another half dozen. That’s in addition to the three they sold the other month.
I’m sure it doesn’t hurt that it’s being displayed pretty prominently in their “local comics” section, and that everyone who works in the shop right now is to some degree a fan of my work. Plus Cap Hill is the gay part of town, and there’s a lot of casual gayness in Rita.. But sheeiit. I must be doing something right for it to be moving like that.
I guess there’s a definite niche for a story about a queer robot lady with reality troubles. If I’m lucky maybe it’s even a significantly-sized one.
And if I’m really lucky I’ll only lose about 50% of the audience that likes Rita when my next projects are furry porn and dark urban fantasy, but I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Man, I really gotta get around to taking my books there. They already said they’d carry it and I just have to get around to bringing it in. Maybe this weekend.