Hello kind readers!
Hope 2024 brings you joy and 5-star reads!

Life over here in my corner of authorland has been all over the board: busy, puzzling, exciting, slow, humbling, humorous.

Between the Tok (good heavens, is that what I look like these days?!) and Amazon ads, I feel my brain is crammed full of information of dubious durability. Or if the data is not flimsy and transitory, maybe my grasp of it is. Hmmm.

I've been honored to be included in several book clubs. They've picked my book (eeeeeee!), and when the meet to talk about it, I show up or FaceTime in to answer questions. It's beyond thrilling for me.

I really love that part of my job: first, talking about my own book is -- intoxicating. But also I do love just talking books and helping match books with readers.

If you're in the Tampa Bay area in March, 2024, I will be signing books at the Barnes & Noble on Westshore on March 16 –– noon til 2:30 or so.

I'll do a quick giveaway at that event: be the first person to mention the book Nicola was reading to Viv (Nicholas Nickleby) will win a gift card someplace useful.