Posted at 12:50PM Sep 28, 2009 by Anna in General  |  Comments[70]

Hey ladies,

Thank you all for your kind wishes for my scary public appearance! It was actually really fun, and we got to discuss LOVE, always a favorite topic. There was a subtext about love versus longing, too, which was interesting-- because of course so much of the violent emotions we are talking about when we talk about love are in fact desire for some unrequited something from the object of our affections. Certainly that's the way it is in The Luxe, and that love at a distance is where so much of the drama and big feelings come in. But of course we none of us ever want to be fully sated, and holding out a little corner of longing in our hearts is probably always a good thing, don't you think?

Anyway, thank you Rachael for pointing out that characters are fragile things. They are! And I am missing the ones from The Luxe a lot these days, as I try to get used to some new ones. It's a little melancholy, I confess, and is making me very excited for one month from now, when Splendor comes out, and we all get to talk about Diana and Henry all over again!