One Down, One and a Half to Go

Greetings from the brief respite between tour cities! I'm home just long enough to do some laundry, reset the TiVo, and inspect Fletch for all his digits. He's not yet lost a finger to his wonky power saw, but I still have half the tour left, so... let's just hope if when it happens, it won't be his middle finger because then he wouldn't be able to properly express himself while driving. (And yes, he says he missed me. Although he also learned to hang drywall while I was gone. Again, I don't imagine this will end well.) I'm off to the west coast leg of my tour today, but before I remind you of tour cities, I have to say a big thanks to St. Louis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and New York! You guys absolutely represented and it means the world to me to actually meet those responsible for my career. Thank you! (And Ilene S. - the Empire Cakes homemade chocolate covered Twinkie? TRANSCENDENT. Also transcendent? The excellent wine and the slutty brownies and the fine, fine company with my ATL tailgaters!) In other old business: - The bookplates are on their way for those of you who preordered. - NAL is working to upload an new version of Jen X with the footnotes embedded so you don't have to click around. (My publisher and editor were really apologetic when they heard this happened as they'd both worked hard to make sure the fix was in place from the...