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January 2, 2019
Best Wishes… and Sad News
My best wishes for a good New Year to everybody.
I’m sorry that I have to begin the year myself with bad news; my lovely dog JJ died this afternoon (complications from a freak accident he suffered two weeks ago) and we buried him next to my garden, where he loved to hunt rabbits and toads with his brother, Homer.
Homer is bereft and so are we.
-Diana
In the upper-right image, JJ and Homer take a nap together. In the next photo, JJ looks for critters to chase in a prickly pear cactus:
In...
December 23, 2018
The Fourth Sunday of Advent!
It’s a short Advent season this year, Christmas coming so soon after the Fourth Sunday, but we are the more expectant in our anticipation, and deeper in our gratitude for the blessings of home and family.
May the blessings of the season be with you and yours!
This excerpt is from the end of THE SCOTTISH PRISONER (aka DIE FACKELN DER FREIHEIT, in German).
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It was cold in the loft, and his sleep-mazed mind groped among the icy...
December 17, 2018
The Third Sunday of Advent
This is the Third Sunday of Advent, when we pause in our serious reflections and take thought and give thanks for the happiness in our lives and souls and the approaching hope and joy of Christmas. This Sunday is also called “Gaudete Sunday,” which means “Rejoicing Sunday.”
(And to add to our sense of rejoicing, a Youtube video of Michael McGlynn’s most recent arrangement/performance of “Gaudete (Christus est natus),” one of my favorite pieces of Christmas music.)
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November 3, 2018
Days of the Dead…
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In the chilly season, when the air grows cold and the spiders die, comes a thin time. The days are short, so all the light of them is concentrated, squeezed between the dawn and dark. This is why the light is different, and each thing has a Shadow. This is when the other worlds draw close, and the barriers between grow thin. In a thin time, they say, you must be careful, because you might...
October 25, 2018
What a week it’s been!
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
MAN, what a week it’s been! First off, let me thank ALL of you who did such great work, voting in the PBS “Great American Read” program. I know a lot of you voted day after day, and often multiple times a day; I appreciate that HUGELY—and your votes were not in vain!
PBS filmed the finale on Sunday night (swearing the audience to secrecy, which apparently worked; I didn’t see any leaks), but aired it this evening (Tuesday). It was an interesting format: they invited...
October 23, 2018
Great American Read Finale & Results!
Written by Diana’s Webmistress on Tuesday, October 23, 2018:
Did you read (or reread) all of the 100 finalist novels in PBS’s Great American Read this summer? Did you vote on your favorite novels? As Diana said, “Who can pick just one?”
The final voting results—in which Americans voted for their favorite novel(s)—are in! The novels receiving the most votes were announced in the Grand Finale episode for the Great American Read, which was broadcast tonight on PBS in the U.S.A. Diana was a VIP...
October 5, 2018
NYCC This Weekend…
Anybody going to New York Comic Con this weekend? If so…
Come by and see me! NYCC has invited me to participate on a panel called “Pages to Pictures”—to do with adaptation, screen-writing, etc. this will be at 10:00 a.m. on SUNDAY, October 7th, at the Shop Studio location.
The panel will be FOLLOWED BY a signing event at the Penguin Random House booth in the Javits Center, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m..
I’ll put up room/hall numbers for you tomorrow—at the moment, I’m at the North Rim of the...
September 30, 2018
Reminder – Great American Read (PBS)!
Well, alrighty, then… So, the voting for your favorite book(s) in the PBS “Great American Read” series goes on until October 19th! That’s a whole lot of voting, and I hesitate to urge anybody to DO it every day…. but I feel that I should tell you that you can if you want to.
You can vote for as many of your favorite books as you want, every day. But—
You can vote ONCE PER DAY PER VOTING METHOD for any given book. (So you could vote five times per day for any given book(s), though I must say...
September 14, 2018
Yankees – First Pitch!
September 14, 2018
Life gets weirder by the minute—but in a GOOD way! Today I was honored to throw the first pitch at the Yankees game. (They beat the Toronto Blue Jays 11 to 0 in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.)
Thanks, Yankees! It was the thrill of a lifetime!
From the celebratory wine:
“Growing up in distant Arizona, without a hometown team to follow, young Diana dreamed of one day playing for the Yankees. As the years passed, she dabbled in different fields: marine biology, zo...
August 8, 2018
SEVEN STONES In Trade Paperback!
Note: I’ll be at the Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale on Friday, August 10, signing copies of this book and my others, as well. See my official appearances page for more information.
Good News!
The good news for today (every day has at least some…) is that SEVEN STONES TO STAND OR FALL is now available in trade paperback format (that’s the large size paperback) in the U.S. and Canada! (It’s already out in the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.) The yellow cover is U.S./Canada; the blue cover is U.K...
