First off, congratulations! How exciting to sell your first novel. :)

Your celebratory pen is absolutely gorgeous.

My friend gave me a Pilot Parallel today. This one has a much larger nib and it creates a calligraphic effect. She also told me you can stick two nibs back to back in it and write with two colors which sounds super cool. I think I'm going to like this pen, but it does have the differently shaped nib that creates the calligraphic effect. I still want to try a regular one with a larger nib.

As far as ink goes, I don't even know what kind I've used. Whatever was cheapest on Amazon and came in a pack of multiple colors LOL or was something she gave me. I've used several different blues, purples and greens that I liked. I was pretty meh on the brown that was included in one pack. I've got black in one of the Smiggles now but it's not a very black black and I don't like it as well as I would something darker. The Pilot Parallel came with two ink cartridges, what looks to be a red and a black that is super inky and sexy.

I've got a yellow that I don't know what to do with; I guess some people use their pens as highlighters? IDK