How to Make an Avocado Bounce

The girl got a Fed Ex package today. In it, as promised to her long ago, is the ARC for klages's new book, White Sands, Red Menace (which has a totally cool cover, including a rocket!). Avocado has been sworn to secrecy--she can talk up the book, but not give away any spoilers, and on pain of more-or-less death, cannot loan the ARC out to any of the people she turned on to Green Glass Sea last year--and they are legion.

So that was cause for bouncing right there. What she didn't know (and I did) was that the kid is one of the dedicatees. She let out a squeal that klages may have heard in Ohio, and bounced around, seriously confusing the dog and repeating "Omigod omigod omigod!" I pointed out that this is not the first time she's had a book dedicated to her (the first would be The Stone War) and she was polite about that, but clearly this is a far more epochal event. And she's going to be the envy of her friends, at the same time that she's torturing them with non-disclosure.