Book release, relaxing, and very nice news

So as most of you know, last week my fifth novel, First Drop of Crimson, released. You'd think that five times into this whole "book on the shelves" thing I'd be blase about releases, but I was just as much of a bundle of nerves for this book as I was for my first one. This time, however, I did something different than my previous four other releases – I went out of town. Yep, instead of sitting in front of my computer compulsively hitting "refresh" on Amazon and B&N to check my ratings, I...