Chicago

Jul 08 , 2006
Charles drove up to bodyguard us at this signing. Not only was he his usual charming self, but it was nice to see a familiar face. Of course, we saw a lot of familiar faces. We [...]
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D.C.

Jul 07 , 2006
It’s Friday, so it must be D.C., and today will be the Richmond, VA signing. I’m having my first cup of tea, and eating my hundredth hotel crossaint. In the morning [...]
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Authors and the trolls.

Jul 06 , 2006
I am being made more and more aware of just how some folks don’t seem to get it. That they cannot dictate to an author what to write or how to write. I just became aware [...]
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Happy Fourth of July

Jul 04 , 2006
Happy Fourth! Frankly, a lot of my energy will be spent getting ready to get on the plane tomorrow. But I did tweleve pages tomorrow, most of it a jumping off point from notes I [...]
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First two signings

Jul 03 , 2006
Well, here’s the continuation of that blog a day, or so, ago: This is still the first signing. One woman gave us an original drawing of Richard, and a poem about him. [...]
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Home

Jul 02 , 2006
We’re home. We’re safe and sound. I’d planned on doing more of the blog I did part of a couple of days ago, but I’ve finally crashed. Time to go to bed, in [...]
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St. Louis

Jun 29 , 2006
The kick-off was great. Estimates of the crowd vary widely — From 380 to 600 — the I’ll leave it to the people who were there to decide. We did a Q&A where [...]
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Danse Macabre is on the shelves, at last

Jun 27 , 2006
Well today is it. DANSE MACABRE is finally on sale. The day you, and I, have been waiting for. I can’t tell you how hard it is to keep quiet about the book and everything [...]
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Early to rise

Jun 26 , 2006
I am sitting in my office. I won’t get to work this morning because we have a television appearance. Which is cool, but I wanted to see what my office looked like this early [...]
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The First

Jun 24 , 2006
Okay, this is the first thing I’ve typed at my desk in the new office. God, the room is huge. It’s so big compared to any other office I’ve ever had that [...]
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