January 3, 2007
I'm entering the final pre-publication weeks for Effigies, and it feels like the ninth month of pregnancy. I'm excited. I'm tired. And I know that I'll be a lot more tired after the "baby" comes, when I start touring. Check out my ever-developing schedule. You'll see that I'm scheduled to speak at some educational conferences, something I've been doing for a year or so now. A growing number of teachers are recognizing that they can teach math and science and history relatively painlessly by using my books, and I'm enjoying the process of working with them to make their teaching lives easier.
Early reviews and comments have been fabulous. Check out the Reviews page for some excerpts. (I'm just too modest to repeat them here...) Reviews of A Merry Band of Murderers have been similarly wonderful, and I've posted some excerpts on the same page. The Merry Band performed at Bouchercon to an enthusiastic crowd who then bought out the book room and stormed us for autographs. For a brief half-hour, all of us unassuming mystery authors got a little taste of what it must be like to be Mick Jagger.