Across the River...and into The Park

The weirdest thing...after I'd gotten my picture taken for the book jacket, I was walking to lunch with my publisher, Debby Buchanan. We passed an art-print store and saw a old poster of Palisades Amusement Park, framed and on sale. Another sign? "I give to you for $80." Hey, I'm from New Jersey, this park was right above my house, it's mentioned in my book, it's mine. "Why not $75?" "Okay, but cash." Now it is mine, after I borrowed $12 from Debby.

Across the River...with a Brain Like a Sieve

Okay. I'm a lousy blogger. I admit it. Shiny objects distract me, so that a week, a month, er...two years go by and...what was I just saying? Life happens. In my case, it's usually a family emergency, the pressing need for gainful employment, or a new season of "Lost" that takes my attention away. The main thing is, my book is finally coming out. It won the 2007 Deadly Ink conference's Best Unpublished Mystery Award, and it will be the first mystery published by Deadly Ink Press.
I had to get a book jacket picture taken, my first in 10 years. I went to one of those places where they do your hair and makeup because I never learned how to do my own. I blame the Sixties.
So this (at left) is what I look like when a stranger fusses over me for 40 minutes.
This is what I look like (right), left to my own devices: