Happy 4th of July!

It has been a busy couple of weeks. Took a quick trip up to Montreal, then went to California for a week-long workshop at VONA where I taught Popular Fiction to ten amazing writers. I’ll be talking about that in another post. Right now, I’m just catching up on work and emails.

Boston celebrated the 4th of July last night — there’s a storm moving in, and it’s supposed to be bad — so the festivities were rushed. Actually, they were rushed even more than we realized, because the first wave of the...