Welcome 2010!

2010, a new year and good things abound. From December 7 through December 21, I participated in Goodreads.com's book giveaway. Four hundred seventy-four readers put their names in for one of three copies of my latest novel, Mangroves and Monsters, and already I'm hearing from the winners. (BTW, kudos to the U.S. postal service for getting the books to their destinations so fast amidst the Christmas package-sending deluge.)

 

Two winners gave the novel four out of five stars, and I look...