#every time jonathan stroud likes my instagram story i have an out of body experience

[finnlongman]

A couple of my childhood author heroes follow me on social media these days, and I'm mostly being normal about it. Like, they'll be nice if I post book news or like a post with writing updates, etc, and that's fine, we are Being Authors Together, I'm fine.

It's when I post something extremely random and weird and then get a notification that it's been liked by someone whose books I borrowed six times from the library when I was 12 and never expected to actually meet – THAT is what I haven't quite got over yet.

#every time jonathan stroud likes my instagram story i have an out of body experience #I'm there like. ah. the bartimaeus author likes my swan picture #moreover the bartimaeus author knows what the inside of my house looks like because he's seen my selfies #interesting. excuse me. i am going to go and scream #mr stroud if you are on tumblr and see this somehow please don't tell me I can't take it