On The Prowl For Books

Kelly drove us over to Barnes & Noble this evening after dinner. The new Jonathan L. Howard Johannes Cabal novel was released today. We couldn't find it in mysteries where his books are sometimes shelved, but she found the new Flavia De Luce novel by Alan Bradley for me. I continued to poke in mysteries while she went off to Fantasy/Sci Fi. I then wandered into fiction and was looking at a book when she came up to me. I asked if she had found Howard's book yet and she goes, you're standing right in front of it. It was the book right next to the one I had picked up and was looking at! Duh!

I brought home four books, three for me, one for John for Christmas, and the moleskin journal I actually went there to buy so I can record all my notes for Spindrift, my upcoming NaNoWriMo novel in it to take with me to write-ins and maybe on a short trip to the ocean to take a break from what has become a hectic life. The cover of the journal is a beautiful ocean blue. The novel will be set on the rocky coast of Maine...so maybe a trip to Maine is in my future?

I will consult my crystal ball later on that.

Kelly also came home with an armful of books. She is thrilled by all the Sherlock Holmes books by various authors that were strewn throughout the mystery section new releases. She has always been a huge Sherlock fan and an avid reader of Laurie King and others who include Mr. Holmes in their books. She plans on going to New Hampshire so will buy the rest of the books that caught her eye up there where there's no sales tax.

Meanwhile, I jumped on the computer when we got home. Ghost Stories LIVE, an event at our little local indie bookseller, is coming up October 29th. The man putting it all together also assembled an anthology of old and new ghost stories that will be available at the event. My short st0ry McCleary's Haunt from Miss Peculiar's Haunting Tales, Volume III, is included in this anthology. So I went to Amazon Books, typed in Russell Atwood and lo and behold- there was the book Ghost Stories LIVE! You can view the back cover, so I selected that and there I am included under new stories by X,Y, & Z authors. I can't wait to see the actual book. I'm excited about this. It's been 21 years since I was last included in an anthology with Monsters No More that I wrote for Kelly when she was three to address those monsters under the bed and in her closet with humorous and creative ways to deal with them.

Had a fun book buying excursion with Kelly who had trouble putting the Cabal novel down when she should have been on her way to bed. Jonathan Howard is just too droll! (British humor- it's so much funnier than our vulgar, obscenity-laced American humor!) He's a very nice man who does respond to emails. We're also fans of his serial novel Goon Squad he publishes on Smashbook for download from Barnes & Noble- we're up to Goon Squad #12.

Back to Notes for NaNo Novel before I hit the hay...