*stares at the lists*
These were the best sellers?! I had a phase in my life where I went gaga over Pollyanna, Gene Stanton Porter and F. H. Burnett (the only people I've read on the list, and even then it was because I combed second hand bookshops and interlibrary loaned across the country for their works) but even then I realized they were weak books...I suppose the equivalent of today's Twilight? Pollyanna is ridiculous. I loved it, but it's ridiculous and I never reread it. Porter is insane. She's a compelling writer, but her plots are soap operas. Laddie made me wince, and other than her massively famous classics Burnett is no better.
anyway-
please let me know when Noon and Midnight Lands goes up. I'm really excited to read it (especially with that title! it's so delicate and evocative).
A lot of my favorite books are the ones that are going out of print/are out of print and not very famous. There are lots of real gems out there, but unfortunately the public likes a certain type of book (Pollyanna and Porter and Burnett all wrote in the same saccharine mode) so self-publishing makes a lot of sense.
I adore your lj, and your short stories, and I'm so excited to read something longer by you!