I'm sitting on a tiny balcony of The Garland Hotel in Burbank, which apparently, in an earlier incarnation was owned by Beverly Garland, the actress, whom I only remember from My Three Sons, near the end of the series, when she was Fred MacMurray's wife. Does that date me, or what?
It's a nice place, and soon I will be going to the Burbank Library's Buena Vista branch to give a talk on Broken Promise, which came out yesterday (as well as the mass market paperback release of No Safe House).
Last night I was in Scottsdale at the fabulous Poisoned Pen bookstore, run by Barbara Peters. We had a nice crowd come out, and Barbara took me out for dinner afterwards. I don't know of anyone more plugged in to what's going on in crime fiction publishing than Barbara. She's terrific.
Tomorrow, I head to San Diego for a stop at Mysterious Galaxy, then it's on to Austin and Houston, and then two stops in Florida before I head back to Canada a week from today.
There have been a lot of terrific reviews for Broken Promise already, and many of you have said very nice things over on my Facebook author page.
Thank you for that.
So, time to start getting ready for tonight's event. More later...