Seasonal note
Depending on your perspective, I’ve either been remiss, or doing what I am supposed to be doing. Focus on the new book, primarily, has led to few posts here through the fall. Of course these journals...
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I could live with Ella Fitzgerald singing the soundtrack to this post… It has been a while, and I’m just gearing up again here. I tend to use Twitter now for short comments on things that matter...
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Not-a-slow news day
Yes, we did – for those who think something looks different hereabouts. Changed the banner to show the cover for Children of Earth and Sky. Had to wait until today for the cover reveals to take place....
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One Book’s Cover
I don’t know many topics that engage authors and readers as much as do book covers. Blood on the tracks, sometimes. The debates can be fierce, and the authorial cries of pain resound from bars and...
View ArticleIt gets late early out there…
(Yes, a Yogi Berra quote. You’ll see what I mean about timing and accelerated schedules as you get into this one!) Because my last few books have been spring releases, it seems that each time as the...
View Article6, 5, 4, 3 …
There is a strange, stage-by-stage aspect to finishing a book. One feels done so many different times. Obviously when the last word is typed (for the first time). Then when the manuscript is revised...
View ArticleThe George Burns entry
So, George Burns was glorious comedian (along with the equally glorious Gracie Allen for years and years). Late in life he developed a running joke about a sequence of ‘Farewell Tours’. I’ve been...
View ArticlePutting the ‘tour’ in Tour Journal
I’ve always described these as ‘tour journals’ since my early model, back with the first one, was writers on tour offering insights (usually funny) as to the vagaries of life as a writer on the road....
View ArticleThe snow before the storm
So, we spent January through mid-March working down south (San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, then northern California) to cleverly dodge the worst of winter and come home to spring – and it is freezing!...
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Tour Schedule
So, Trish Bunnett, my publicist at Penguin Random House Canada (I still prefer ‘Random Penguin’, probably always will), coordinating with Alexis Nixon who does the same thing in NY, has laid out and...
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