I just received the prettiest bouquet of roses from my publisher, with a note that said,

“Dear Michelle, Congratulations on your very first New York Times bestseller.”

Well, I would like to be very dignified and nonchalant about this, but I just about peed in my pants, as we say down in Alabama.

Granted, they told me about it yesterday–a phone call from Nita Taublib and my editor, Caitlin Alexander, which began with the question, “Michelle, are you sitting down?”, and which resulted in my hurling a joyful expletive at Caitlin, as in, “Are you f-ing kidding me?”–but by this morning I’d kind of convinced myself I was dreaming, so when the flowers arrived it was like, oh, that really did happen, I wasn’t making it up! Here’s the list, which will appear in the March 30 edition of the Times.