still more tour dates! plus, egg drop soup

Howdy all! First of all, thanks to each and every one of you who helped HOURGLASS debut at #4 on the NYT YA Series list -- I am very happy and very grateful. If you guys did not invest in these characters and put up with my wild, cliffhanger-loving ways, I would have a lot less good stuff in my life.

And just to reiterate, because a few people have wondered: Yes, there is a fourth book -- AFTERLIFE -- and there will be no cliffhangers there. Bianca and Lucas and company still have the most...