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Mile High

Notwithstanding the smell of hot molten plastic emanating from the Crocs

The Double Qs

On January 31st, Week 1 of the book tour was set begin. The first stop would be Albuquerque, which I knew was in New Mexico, which I knew was the desert, which I knew was hot.

That's where the problem started.

"You're bringing shorts?" Liz asked, watching me move clothes from my drawer into my small bag.

"Just in case," I said.

"Just in case what?"

I stopped packing, wondering if she was being difficult.

"In case it's hot," I said. "I'll be in Albuquerque for two days."

She nodded. "Hmmm," she said. She watched me start packing again. Then she said, "You know that Albuquerque is cold right now, right? Like – freezing cold."

"It's in New Mexico!"

This was the beginning of my lesson that protesting that a place shouldn't be cold does not necessarily make it not cold.

The Double Qs

On January 31st, Week 1 of the book tour was set begin. The first stop would be Albuquerque, which I knew was in New Mexico, which I knew was the desert, which I knew was hot.

That

The End of Pre-Publication Touring

I love San Francisco, but I

The End of Pre-Publication Touring

I love San Francisco, but I'm not sure how San Francisco feels about me. Not that the booksellers there, at my first pre-publication dinner, weren't effusive about the book – they were, humblingly so. And not because the independent booksellers and librarians out there weren't awesome folks – they were.

No, I think it's because I continued to refer to San Francisco as "San Fran" for the first hour of conversation, until I noticed that every time I did, somebody would find a reason to say "San FranCISCO" a few seconds later.

Now on Sale…

Almost exactly two years after first deciding to write this book, Little Princes goes on sale today.

I

Three Hundred Blank Pages

What I knew about the publishing industry two years ago could be summed up in one word: The.

It would not, admittedly, be a great summary.

Since the idea for this book came about a couple of years ago, I

Audio-dacity

On a recent trip down to Virginia, Liz and I listened to the audio book of a Dean Koonz thriller. I hadn

The Nate Berkus Show

The Nate Berkus Show is on national TV every day, and Nate Berkus himself is one of those people who is so ridiculously charismatic that I was worried that the oversized framed photo of him in the green room would cause my wife to swoon and I

The Mexican Wedding (Part II)

The first thing I noticed when we piled off the boat onto legendary director John Huston