Now that was fast! I sent Rick Kleffel at The Agony Column an ARC of my Wannoshay novel a few weeks back, and he's already responded with a very wonderful, funny, and on-the-nose review/recap of the book. He had some great things to say about it, including:

There's a peculiarly American fullness that underlies his prose and his approach. His spiritual interests are somehow still down-to-earth even if his aliens are not of the earth. The Wannoshay are as vulnerable as the homeless, as pliable as the ne'er-do-wells who haunt fast food restaurants and run-down bars. They're pragmatic, not romantic. And they're as easily sidelined, dismissed and converted into scapegoats for all of our ills, for all of our sins.

Yeah. Exactly. I feel like he really got what I was shooting for in the book, even if I couldn't put my finger on it as accurately as he did (hey, sometimes us writers are just channeling the story and can't see the forest for the trees; how's that for a mixed metaphor?).

Sweet. The first review for my novel, already! I'm making this a November entry so I can look at it all month. Later!