Letters Books Paradise Author Events Readers Photos Reviews Press Home   I know today is the first day of July but do not ask me where my underwear is or a frying pan or the file that has everything I want to put in my next newsletter. Sold the house where I wrote three novels. We moved. Did the pod thing. Gave away about sixty percent of what we own…talk about freeing. Mostly packed rocks and books. Found a little pad to set up shop in until the trek to California in late August. Daughter Rachel's graduation party yesterday lasted 12 - count them - 12 hours. I am tired, tired, and more tired but managed to finish The Shortest Distance Between Two Women - my sixth novel. Oh~!!!!! Just wait. I promise it will be worth it. Searching for Paradise in Parker P.A., which you had better be reading right now, keeps rolling along and was named a great summer read by Women's Day magazine. How cool is that? Paradise right now for me is a moment to take a short breath and then start all over again. Well, I also have a tall stack of books to tear into and its finally been warm enough here in the tundra to bike outside and actually sit in a lawn chair -- if you can survive the mosquitoes. The rest of July is set aside for work on my seventh novel, which has already been sketched in a variety of notebooks and on several napkins. It's time to dig in and crank on my research which will take me all the way to California and well.... that's about all I can tell you now because I hate talking about my books until they are about to be bound and sent to your house. I can tell you that I am in the "it's hard to sleep because this is all I can think about" mode where ideas and characters are coming to me as if they are raining from the rafters. It's kind of electric around me but it also means I am worse than ever about leaving cabinet doors open, losing keys, denting cars -- twice last week -- and missing my mouth when I remember to eat. I'll have more news next month after my packing wounds heal up. You should be out in the sun soaking up some vitamin D anyway and reading until you pass out. Get out there. I'll see you next month and if I hope to have some tour photos and a newsletter for you soon. Keep everything cool -- unless your heart starts on fire and then run with it. Dropping into paradise just now I - am always -
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