Newsmakers: The People Behind Today’s Headlines, is just published by Gale.
“Newsmakers – published quarterly in softcover – provides timely and informative profiles of the world’s most interesting people. A hardbound annual cumulation makes Newsmakers a permanent reference source on 200 newsmakers of the year. Four indexes help readers locate entries by name, nationality, occupation and subject. Separate obituaries provide concise profiles of recently deceased newsmakers.”
I’m quoting in full from their website because, well, I’m fascinated by all this. Click this table of contents and you’ll see what I’m talking about:
The world’s most important people include: the Chancellor of Germany, the President of Cuba, Maeve Binchy, Rachel Maddow, the Governor of Washington State, the co-inventor of Roomba, the Chair of the National Republican Committee…and me.
Life is very, very strange.
Nicola Griffith 
Wow, on a list of 200. Pretty astute people those researchers at Gale.
Good thing we have you and Rachel Maddow to counteract people like Castro.
I'm officially impressed.
I'm sorta impressed, too :) And puzzled. And definitely gleeful…
You are definitely one of the most interesting people I know!
This is just swell, and most definitely well-deserved. Congratulations.
Whoa. That is impressive. Congratulations.
See WE all know you're important. Nice to have THEM realize it too. Well done. :)
Well it's the TRUTH!
Chortle…
Chortle away. You deserve it.
That's amazing. Congratulations! I am really impressed and thankful that more people can hear about your marvellous work.
It's always nice to have validated what we already know ;)
I'm awesome. You're awesome. We're all awesome.
Why not you? It's kind of freaky to be noticed, like the universe is looking too closely, but you're special in that way that transcends the short bus.
Not that there's anything wrong with the short bus, only that it's less applicable in this instance.
And I will stop now.
I am officially grateful that the rest of the world…or some of it, has clued in on what we've known for ages!
Nicola, that's totally awesome. You should really frame that puppy.
.grin.
That is very fun!
I am totally a special snowflake, it is fun, and I might frame it :)
Super WOW! Congratulations.
wow, between a roomba an a bear. well, not a bear but Bear.