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 […]

So Krissie and I are in Brisbane in a B&B and it’s quirky and bizarre and really fun and has the best kitchen ever.

Not that we’re cooking but it’s really amazing. And lots of balconies.

And birds that make strange sounds and a fabulous view of the Brisbane skyline. […]

I taught all day, the seminar Bob and I usually tag team on, but I did it ALL BY MYSELF. Bored people to tears, but they sat there like champs from 9AM to 4:30. I’d have thrown something at me, but Australians are so lovely. Meanwhile, Krissie got to see the opera house […]