Major bummer! After keeping after the manager of Books A Million, I followed up today and he told me that they’re not buying this book for signings. Strange, because they stock it on the shelves. Anyway, would have been nice if he’d called and told me. This after I already alerted two of my publishers to put the date in the next newsletters. I’ll just have to wait until…I don’t know when.
In the meantime, I have plenty of work to do. I’m writing the last couple of scenes for Men of Tokyo: Sudden Heat and the book is going to come in at 80k word lengthwise. For those of you who don’t know, this is about the equivalent of a bit over 300 pages in a trade paperback. Probably my longest yet with the exception of Kiss of the Werewolves which is actually two novels combined into one. Also, I’ve made some changes to Fantasy Thief. Thought it would be fun to make the hero a Scotsman from Glasgow. My plan is to get to work on that one and shoot for Harlequin’s Blaze line since it seems to fit the parameters of what they’re looking for.
I’m also still glowing from Madame Butterfly’s review of Sudden Bliss as well as the two Recommended Reads from Joyfully Reviewed. They all came to me in a cluster and DEFINITELY gave me a boost of enthusiasm. I’m also reading another Inspector Chen myster by Qiu Xiaolong. This one is entitled A Loyal Character Dancer. I can’t explain it, but Qiu’s style just really helps the flow of my writing and he is so amazing at weaving an intriguing mystery, unwrapping it at just the right pace and injecting poetic phrases here and there. Very amazing!