I've borrowed a fiaker from Merisi's Vienna to take us over to Molly Weston's MERITORIOUS MYSTERIES for the last stop on the blog tour.
But perhaps the elegant conveyance below would be more suitable. I'm talking about graveyards and giving an excerpt from the new book -- an excerpt set in a graveyard. And it is the last stop, after all...and your last chance to leave a comment and be entered in a drawing for a copy of the new book.
Huzzah!!! It's out! Birdie's book hits the shelves today!
Like any anxious mother, I hope the world will be kind to my latest creation
I have pansies to plant . . .and the corrected and revised manuscript of Under the Skin to return to my editor.
I won't see it again till it's in page proofs and I'll read through one more time, hopng to catch every last typo.
It's one of the many oddities of publishing that now, as I begin visiting book stores and libraries to talk about The Day of Small Things, it's Under the Skin that is fresh in my mind.
My heartfelt thanks to those of you who've suffered with me through the borning of Birdie's book. You have kept my spirits up when thing were difficult and you've been kind enough to follow me as I go roving to post on other blogs.
I've fluttered away to Buried Under Books where I'm talking about writing dialect . . . and there's another drawing for another copy of THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS.
Please click over and give your opinion -- how much dialect is too much? I'm still struggling with this question...
I'm not here today. I'm blogging about The Day of Small Things over at Poe's Deadly Daughters, the first of four mystery-related blogs I'm visiting in support of the new book. The post won't be up till 6 am EST on Saturday, so you early birds in California, NZ, England, and Elsewhere will have to wait a bit if you choose to visit.
I'd really love it if you'd click over and leave a comment at PDD -- make me feel like one of the popular kids...
What's more, your comment over there will enter you in a drawing for a signed copy of The Day of Small Things -- my author's copies just arrived!
(And no, I didn't take the photo of the heron and I'm not sure of its origin -- I kind of think some one sent it to me -- if it was you, let me know and I'll give credit where it's due for this gorgeous shot.)
It's the light at the end of the tunnel! It's a new day dawning!
It's clouds rolling away and blue skies ahead!
It's an email from Herself saying that the pruning away of excess material in The Day of Small Things (aka Birdie's book) worked for her and that the results were "spellbinding!"
The manuscript is in copy editing now -- when that's done, I'll get it back and address whatever further small changes are required. But for now . . .
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