Celebrated the launch of THE BLACK HOUR at Chicago’s Book Cellar, a fantastic Lincoln Square independent bookstore, July 19. Thanks to everyone who attended! Thanks to Suzi and the Book Cellar staff for the great event and to Rafi Letzter for the great photos.
Feeling very lucky these days. Here are just a few of the great write-ups The Black Hour has enjoyed already: An interview with Thriller Books Journal. A very enthusiastic review from Justin, who I met at BEA in New York. He almost missed his bus reading the…
This week is Indiana launch week, with an event in my hometown at the library where I went as a kid. (They put my name on the marquee—who does not love this?) Then I have an event in Indianapolis at IndyReads, a marvelous store on Mass Ave….
The Black Hour is the Library Journal’s Mystery Debut of the Month! They also gave me a STARRED REVIEW, kapow! I don’t know why, but that’s the sound I hear. KAPOW! News and photos from my launch party coming soon! KAPOW!
At a conference I went to in March, my friend Catriona McPherson carried around her advanced reader copy of The Black Hour all day, cover out. It was the single best part of the conference, maybe aside from the photo I had taken with Louise Penny on…
That sounds so ominous. It’s not like “the end is nigh” or anything. I just mean— HOLY SHIT MY BOOK IS OUT. Ahem. Sorry. Let me wipe my spit off you. It’s just…I’ve wanted to be an author since I was six years old and figured out…
Well, the media blitz has begun. I might be tired of myself already. Hope not *everyone* is. Two great pieces went out today to help get the word out about The Black Hour ahead of its release date a week…from…gulp…today. Many thanks to the International Thriller Writers…
I’m strangely calm. I should be terrified or worried or harried or something, right? I should be pitching a fit, with tears, over something small and insignificant. I’m actually more worried about how I’m going to get my house clean for the visitors I’ll have for my…
Yesterday was June 8, which means today? Today is less than a month away from my book launch day of July 8. Wow, what a long time 15 months can be. And yet, there are a million things I need to get done with the, gulp, 29…
FINALLY the interview I did with Publishers Weekly is out from behind the subscriber paywall. Take a look! — I’m at Printers Row this weekend, if you’re in the area and way into books, sunshine, and Chicago-ness. Truly, Printers Row is just about the perfect Chicago event….
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