A very quiet Easter Sunday here in Texas.  I spent the soft, gray Sunday morning writing, answering email, and working on an extra materials piece for the trade paperback edition of Necessary as Blood.  Then on to tax prep, with breaks to help Rick repair winter weather damage to our sprinkler [...]

Hi from lovely, although not sunny, Florida.  I’m here in Fort Lauderdale for the Broward Library Foundation’s  Literary Feast, which begins tomorrow with two packed days of programs.  But this afternoon I had a chance to enjoy the view from the balcony of my room at the Hyatt Pier 66, overlooking the Atlantic, and a [...]

With apologies to Alice Sebold, I have to admit that I have not read The Lovely Bones.  My reading tends to be patchy at best–I usually get around to bestsellers after everyone else on the planet has read them.  But I think I deliberately avoided The Lovely Bones, in print and film, because, although my [...]