Taking a breath

I got a thank-you note today from a student at one of the schools that received books from the Guys Lit Wire and Operation Teen Book Drop book fair. The student is reading one of the books I selected to donate, and she writes, "I am going to read it today and everyday. If I have free time." This note made me so, so happy. Book enthusiasm tends to do that to me.

This is also a weekend in which I have no author events planned--I have been doing author events pretty steadily since January--and n...