About mistakes, a book tour, and a new biography

      I’d like to start with an Alert Message.  I am hoping that most of the people who e-mail me via my website also read my blogs, for I had a computer meltdown recently, and all of the e-mails in my In Box since August of 2007 were instantly erased.  Fortunately I do back up onto my flash drive, but I’d been lazy and so I lost at least two weeks of e-mails, including a number from readers.  I get so much mail that I cannot respond to every one, but I do try to answer specific questions or req