Happy New Year

It’s a new year and an especially relevant time for me to introduce myself because my sixth novel comes out TOMORROW, January 3.
I grew up in Texas and the place has a hold on me that I guess most people feel for their original home. When I go back to visit, I have a strange mix of annoyance and happiness. I’m annoyed at the ways in which the worst of the state’s excesses have taken over, and happy to be back where the smell of the air and familiar sights, smells, and sounds take me back to a...