Catching Breath

Not really.  No time to catch breath.  Just under three weeks until publication, and things are going ever so slightly bonkers.  But in a good way. Lots of news to share with you.  Where to begin?  Let’s see… A GOOD AMERICAN was named #1 Read to Pick Up for February in O Magazine.  Yes, that’s Ms. Winfrey’s little publication.  Kind …

Holiday Cheer

Something of a pot-pourri today. Good news continues to roll in about the book.  We are now hearing about media coverage in newspapers and magazines, and it is all very exciting.  I will post nearer the time when and where things will be appearing. In the meantime, I have to share this wonderful review of A GOOD AMERICAN by Michael Magras. …

News

Lots going on at the moment, so I thought I would give you all a very brief overview of recent developments. It’s hard to believe that it’s now less than two months until A GOOD AMERICAN is published.  And there was me thinking this time would drag.  It has rushed by. The goodreads galley giveaway that I talked about a …

UK News

I’m just back from a wonderful and refreshing vacation in Maine, which I will write about shortly, but I wanted to share a little bit of exciting news before then. The UK edition of A GOOD AMERICAN now has a publication date.  It is scheduled to be published by Fig Tree Books, an imprint of Penguin UK, on August 2, …

Where Was I?

Goodness, turn around for a half a second, and a week or two flies by. Apologies for the lack of recent posts; things have been busy here.  The fact that I’m in the office on a sunny Saturday should tell you something.  My parents will be arriving in Missouri on Monday for an extended stay, which I am really looking …

News Round-Up

Some good news, in brief – we recently sold the Italian rights to A GOOD AMERICAN to Italian publishers Sperling.  It’s always fun to sell foreign rights, especially in languages that I don’t speak.  (The French editions of my earlier books always bothered me a bit, because the translator took some pretty extraordinary liberties with the text, to the point …

Book Looks Like Book for First Time Shock

So, this is how it works. You sit alone, for hours and hours, and years and years, creating characters, telling stories, imagining lives.  You live through the good days and the bad days.  You slog away, you persevere, even when everything seems utterly hopeless and you think you’ll never write another word. Finally you have a book. Except that it’s …

More Book News

Well, things are moving ahead. It now appears that we have a tentative date scheduled for the publication of A GOOD AMERICAN – January or February of 2012.  It seems an awfully long way off right now but I know that there’s a lot to do in the forthcoming months and I will be kept extremely busy.  I am told …

“Now the Fun Bit”

So, yesterday was a big day for me. I have lost count over the past couple of years how many times I have written on this blog that the book is “finished”.  There have been so many drafts and rewrites that it makes my head spin. The difference then, of course, was that I was the only one who had …

Book News

I’ve been meaning to write this post for some time now.  One of the purposes of this blog was to keep everyone up to date with what’s going on with the new book and the publishing process.  Regular readers will have noticed a conspicuous absence of anything to do with the novel of late. So what’s up?  This should bring …