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Book signings April-May

03/16/2011

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Anthem for Doomed Youth is now out in hardcover, Kindle and Nook. Read reviews and the poem from which the title came on the DAISY DALRYMPLE MYSTERIES page. I will be signing and/or talking about it during the next couple of months at:

April 14 Ashland OR Public Library 7 pm

April 15 Klamath Falls OR Public Library noon

April 16 Medford OR Public Library 1 pm

April 23 Portland OR Murder by the Book 1 pm

April 30 Seattle WA Seattle Mystery Bookstore 12 pm

May 1 Silverdale WA Barnes & Noble 2 pm

May 13 CrimeFest Bristol UK panel Arsenic and Old Lace 2 pm
May 14 CrimeFest Bristol UK panel An Affair to Remember 10 am
May 30 London UK Hatchard's Bookshop 3 pm

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What's in the mail?

02/17/2010

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One interesting facet of being a writer, especially one with a long backlist, is that I never know what the mail is going to bring.

Last week, for instance, one day I got a cheque for the English editions of Daisy's 4th, 5th and 6th adventures (Murder on the Flying Scotsman, Damsel in Distress, and Dead in the Water). At least, insofar as I can understand St Martin's royalty statements, that's mostly what it was for. On Friday, I got a royalty cheque for sales of the e-books of Regencies written and published long ago. Yesterday, three copies of the UK large print edition of Daisy's first--Death at Wentwater Court--arrived. I didn't even know those rights had been sold! (Really must learn to read St Martin's statements. If only they weren't in such small print! Still, that's what I have an agent for)

Then there's email. Today I got the final version of the cover of A Colourful Death, my second Cornish mystery. I posted the original version last month. The only difference is that the slash has been lengthened to cross not only my name but the title. It now looks more like a slash and less like a nasty mistake. I think it's an improvement; how about you? Here's the new one:
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I received an ARC in the mail yesterday. The slash on the cover looks even better "in person" so to speak. So real I actually touched it to make sure it wasn't there.


My editor also sent me the review quotes that will be on the back of the book. Some really nice ones for Manna from Hades! I've posted them on the Cornish Mysteries page.

Last week, I had an email from an English theatre company interested in adapting Daisy for the stage. There's a BBC TV personality involved with the company--who knows where it might lead? Or it might not. You never can be sure.

 Also in my inbox was an invitation to help out at the Sisters in Crime booth at the American Library Association conference in Portland in March. I've always wanted to go to ALA and it's always been somewhere I couldn't get to. I didn't even know it was in Portland this year. So here I have a chance to schmooze with fellow SinC members (aka sibs) and large numbers of librarians, who are some of my favourite people.

I wonder what's in the mail today. Excuse me, I'd better run out and check...    Oops, nearly fell over a package the UPS man left between front door and screen door--two copies of Sheer Folly in Large Print. Any librarians reading this?
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