In Which I Cope with Post-Publication Depression

A big box arrived yesterday. Even though the June 16 publication date for Ashes to Water isn't here yet, there it was, that box, resting on the frame behind my mailbox. Oh, be still my fluttering heart.

When my first book, Rules of the Lake was published, I didn't see the book until I stumbled across it at Barnes & Noble. I don't know what happened there. I eventually got my personal shipment, of course, but by then I'd already held it for the first time, so I didn't really have that open-the...