I know, I’m a slug and should have done two different posts here but you have no idea how tired I was. (Somewhere, Bob is saying, “Wimp.”) The Cincinnati signing was fabulous, even more fabulous because Lanie wore her flamingo shoes, just a great crowd with great questions. I honestly don’t remember [...]

We’re back from a great signing at JoBeth in Lexington–it makes such a difference when people have great questions because we’ve heard our own song and dance so many times that it’s hard to keep it fresh, and so far everybody has had great questions–and now I’m in my room catching up on the news [...]

I’m a slug. I was supposed to post this last night but I collapsed into bed. Two great interviews yesterday with Barbara from PW and an audio interview with Steve Bertrand for the B&N site, and then on to one of my fave bookstores in the world, Anderson’s in Naperville (see, I can [...]

One of the big perks of a book tour is very nice hotels with everything covered by the publisher. SMP pretty much gets a deal with me since I don’t drink (it’s the liquor that’ll kill the budget) although I have been known to do some damage by buying the $50 Snickers in [...]

So we’re in Pittsburgh, where half the highways are closed for construction, but the city is beautiful and peaceful, plus we did a great booksigning at Mystery Lovers (there is no other kind of signing at Mystery Lovers) and then Richard and Mary Alice and Kathy took us out to a great dinner where Bob [...]

I’ve been home two days. I’ve eaten twice, run errands for two hours, put the non-slip surface on the rest of my front steps, and slept forty-two hours. It’s now past nine, I have to get up at the crack of dawn to catch a plane, and I’m still not packed.
I [...]

You know, I want to like LA. It’s warm, and I love the houses—the bungalows and adobes and cottages—and the foliage and the diversity. But I always end up feeling like an extra in The Player—too fat, too old, and too Ohioan to do anything but cross the street in the background while [...]

I would love to say something pithy and funny and insightful about LA, but mostly I have seen the airport hotel where I have been sleeping extensively since landing two days ago (two?) except for yesterday when Inkgrrl and her husband the Prince took Krissie and me to Little Tokyo where we had a fabulous [...]

We landed, and without killing the brat that screamed the last half hour of the flight without pausing to even draw breath. We both adored Australia and New Zealand, but I looked at the year ahead and thought, “That’s it.” Then I called Mollie and said, “i’m back in the States and [...]

Cheetos in Australia are called Cheese Twisties. They’re excellent.
We went to the Sydney Wildlife something or other and saw amazing things like the frilled lizard and this guy:

They drive on the other side of the road here–I know, duh–and it makes turning a corner a really exciting experience.
They sell Krispy Kremes in the Sydney [...]