New News

There's a great Q&A done by Peggy Adler in the outstanding journal Fiction Writers Review.

And a guest blog post on Meg Waite Clayton's blog, First Books: Stories of How Writers Get Started.

More Recent News

This weekend I got the incredibly lucky break of a good review in the New York Times Book Review. What's more, they mocked up a fancy mug shot of me, which is pretty cool. I especially like how carefree and unfazed I look despite my apparent arrest.

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Review in the New York Times Book Review

More fun news items over the past week or so:

Interview on Greg Berg's WGTD Morning Show 

Review in the UWM Post

My Page 69 Test Moment

For those of you playing along at home, here are some recent news items about Dream House: 

Review of Dream House in the Badger Herald 2/23/2009

Interview on WUWM's "Lake Effect" 2/19/2009

Q&A with OnMilwaukee.com

Brief Review in Entertainment Weekly 

DH Among New Releases in the New York Times

Feature by Mary Beth Lewis in the Ann Arbor Observer

Q&A with Boswell Book Co.'s Daniel Goldin

Feature by Geeta Sharma-Jensen in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Check back for more updates soon, and thanks for your support! 

Especially big thanks to all you fine crazies who turned out last Thursday night at Schwartz Books in Milwaukee!

Fear and Angst

What I've discovered since launching this blog (technically if not actually) is that I have a powerful fear of this blog. I have opened it up many times, blinked at it warily, as at an aberrant, unnamed circus animal inadequately restrained behind its few rusting metal bars. I turn away, check back later, peek through the cage, then leave again.

Brace Yourselves

I'm doing it. I'm actually, truly starting a blog. But not tonight. Check back in a day or two and I'll try to have something worth reading here.