As to those who don’t get it’s at least half memoir, I don’t consider their reactions worth pondering (and one day in person I’ll explain to you why there is a small group of people who seem to think lavishing an inordinate amount of negative attention on me will do anything but make me think they are in serious need of better things to do with their time). I don’t think any careful or considerate reader can miss the fact that this is part memoir or be OMGSHOCKED when they discover that fact, and the only reactions I care about are those of careful and considerate readers. Luckily my readers are both things, in spades; I can’t even tell you the volume of e-mail I’m getting these days, and how each letter is of such fantastic quality that for that alone I consider myself successful. Anyway, as always, there are many who make it their aim to be as dulled/inconsiderate/uncareful as possible about this book, but I always knew going in that there would be. If there weren’t, I would have taken that as a note that it did not hit a critical mass of Potter fans.

It’s such a joy when friends say they’ve enjoyed the book. That is seriously the best part of this entire enterprise. I just, as I was writing this, got a text message from another friend who just finished it. That I’ve written something my friends enjoy brings me a great warmth that no idiot on Amazon can cool.

I swear I’m coming out to NJ to see that gorgeous daughter of yours and catch up.

xxx,
M