Fan Mail

Sometimes mail becomes stuck in the cogs

of the mighty publishing wheel.

Sometimes it falls off a desk

or sticks to someone else's mail.

Sometimes the handwriting on the envelope

is illegible

and it has to wait for a code-breaker to decipher it:

Is this for Ms. Cleary or Ms. Cushman or Ms. Creech?

How else to explain that the most recent box of mail

forwarded from the publisher

(a small portion of which is shown above)

contains letters written as far back as 

September, 2011?

Ack!

I feel badly that readers have had to wait so long for a reply.

I need fortification as I tackle the pile:

This batch comes from these countries:

USA, Belgium, Canada, England, Israel, Japan, Taiwan

and 38 states 

from Alabama to West Virginia

and from towns with such great names as

Big Spring, Eagle, Minnetonka, Washougal, White Salmon

 Little Chalfont, Brussels, Coquitlam, Taipei

and these streets

King Albert Avenue, Cokes Lane, Ivy Flower Loop

Grassy Lick Road, St. Pippin Road, Sugar Avenue

In my next post, I'll treat you to

wonderful names

of readers 

a beautiful

collection

of

beautiful

names.

xx