An update and new for June

As you may have noticed, the blog posts have tailed off a bit recently. Things have been more than a little crazy, including a trip to the UK during which the Armchair Mystery book group from TKE went to do two things. The first? To visit our good friend and much-missed bookseller Wendy Foster Leigh, and her hubby who have been on sabbatical in London since September (yes we flew all the way to London to see her, she's that cool:-)

Our second thing was two readings by authors who have been to TKE before (Chris Ewan (with author James Carroll) and Peter Lovesey.) Due to a baby (Chris) and no current plans to come to the US (Peter) we went to them. Both readings, at Waterstones flagship store in Piccadilly, were fantastic, although I learned from Chris that the Good Thief's Guide series is pretty much dead. He will continue to write stand alone novels, I have a copy of Dead Line to read and review.

Peter's reading was great too, he joked that there were so many familiar faces in the audience that he was expecting a hand on his shoulder and "Peter Lovesey, this is your life," to be intoned by whoever is doing that show now!

You'd think that would be plenty for one month, but no. We also had Jenny Milchman, author of Cover of Snow (Mary Higgins Clark award-winner at this year's Edgars!) come back to TKE for her new book Ruin Falls. Jenny is in the midst of another long 'all over america' book tour. As I'm writing this she and the family have reached California and they are not done yet. Jenny has been incredibly supportive of my writing, even though she has yet to read any of it (!!) I did the intro for Jenny and we had a pretty good turnout for a Friday evening.

I also joined Sisters in Crime and have just written a two page piece for their newsletter. Those of you who know how long it takes me to write a five minute intro can guess how long that took! Add to that a bathroom remodel and a land rover safari and May was just packed. Enjoy these new releases!