Couple of things. One, as noted in the previous post, I’m going to Bouchercon, here in St. Louis this year. The other event coming up—well, Archon, of course, the first weekend of October, but I always try to be there—will be the local independent bookstores bus tour on October 22nd, via St. Louis Alliance. I’ll be at the Book House on Manchester Road from 11:00 AM on and then with readers for lunch. Check the Alliance web page for details.
Today I spent doing some catch-up stuff. Company left this morning, so I cleaned up a bit, walked the dog, then got together with Scott Phillips in U City for coffee. Scott’s a great guy and I owe him for hooking me up with my new agent. He has a new novel out and I urge you all to find it, buy it, read it. The Adjustment is prime Scott, quirky, disturbing, funny, and utterly unclassifiable. (And although I have provided the Amazon link, please buy it from a local, preferably independent bookstore. If you don’t, I’ll know, or I know people who will know, and once they know, well…)
After that, heading back home, I took a detour to visit a friend I don’t see enough of. Vicky was home and we spent an hour or so visiting, something I need to do more often. I’ve known Vicky for mumbles%handovermouth*muffle muffle years and, as with others, time has sort of slipped away and too much has gone by without enough contact. Yeah, I’ve been busy (and sometimes just in no kinda mood to be friendly with anyone) and so has she, but friends are friends and there’s no real excuse. If you delay and accept the excuses, one day you go back and find the place overgrown, abandoned, the windows busted, and the door boarded up.
Anyway, I’m back home now (obviously) and doing some more cleaning up and getting a bit annoyed at myself for being disorganized. There’s more fiction to write, some music to do, and—at the moment perhaps most importantly—a nap that needs taking. I can see it, right there, lying out in the open, unguarded. All I need to do is reach out when no one is looking and take it.
