Very glad you stopped by. I hope to use this space to share news – book news, and of course personal news as well. At some point during this past year those two things became almost one and the same. I’m still reeling from the merger, you might say.
A lot of folks have been asking for updates, so…
Just last week a big box of ARE’s (Advanced Reading Editions) arrived in the mail.
The ARE’s are beautiful. They look like the real-deal, and are the last step – the almost-final-draft, if you will – before the actual book comes out in hardcover in May.
Meanwhile, my publicist is setting up events. We’ll be headed to Atlanta for the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in late January, then to Minneapolis for the American Book Association’s Winter Institute, and finally to Toronto for the Ontario Library Association’s Super Conference. After that I’ll be in Washington DC to attend the annual AWP conference (Association of Writers and Writing Programs).
Oh, and the website is (obviously!) up! Special thanks to Steve and Laura at Authorbytes for all their hard work on the design, and to writer-friends Amy Neswald and Kaely Horton for the fine pictures they produced. Special acknowledgements to Dover, New Hampshire – a place I care very deeply about – where the images for the homepage were snapped
I hope to blog as often as I have updates and insights, which these days is pretty frequently. I’ll be sending out a newsletter, too, so I hope you’ll subscribe.
But for now, welcome!
