Thanks a lot, especially for the good words about the book. I know, they really are inexplicable and a big deal, both. In principle, I do think it's possible for us to figure out ways to celebrate and honor and help get each other's work more into the general conversation without that queasy winning and losing thing, and there are so clearly ways in which biases in the larger culture continue to affect which books get attention within queer publishing. And, still. I do want it, yep, so much as to be embarrassing, and my feelings were hurt when my earlier books were completely passed by. It's that -- hey! what? the queers don't want my work, either? -- feeling. Still, it's a beautiful thing for the books that get honored, and it helps queer writers sustain their work, and I really do think that having been in that position of helping choose things (for instance, I judged Astraea -- can never spell that -- one year) will help me keep perspective, no matter what. That, and -- for me -- the (could it really be possible?) dream of a black, long-line, strapless bra that actually fit and also worked...