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Down in Fairhope, Al., for Spring Break. Beautiful town on the Mobile Bay with breezy beachy weather, fantastic food, and a history that screams “write a novel set here!” It started as a Utopian colony in 1894–28 people landed near the present-day site and set about building a perfect society in the middle of pines,…

Brunonia Barry, who wrote the very good The Lace Reader, also wrote this review of Come in and Cover Me for the Washington Post. It’s a very smart piece, and it’s kind and generous in the way I think all writers should be. It always puzzles me when a reviewer–especially another novelist–goes out of his…

NPR asked me to write about a favorite book, and I chose Adam Rex’s The True Meaning of Smekday. That piece just came out on the NPR Web site–here it is. One note: This is in a section called Guilty Pleasures, but I do not feel the least bit guilty about Smekday. It’s brilliant. P.S. We…

I believe I’ve mentioned before how much I love X-Files. And I’ve liked my share of vampires—Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood. But it’s surprised me a little that both in press interviews and in Q&A sessions on tour, the issue of my own belief in the paranormal has come up several times. Do I…

The book tour is now wrapped up—we made our last stops,MemphisandOxford, last week. Ahhh. It’s nice to be home. Both stops were satisfying, though, with the added benefits of excellent food and a visit to Faulkner’s home inOxford.  Twice now, I’ve had people tell me their own stories of death and loss at book-signings. One…

Hoping to get in a little site maintenance at the end of the week, but here’s the review from USA Today from last week. Sometime soon I’m going to explain about ghosts talking in 21st century English.

Now we’re back home from, Woodstock, Ga., (where six-month-old babies are extremely popular), Asheville, Charlotte, and Atlanta. Whew. All that’s left are Memphis and Oxford this week. Just for fun, let me see if I can name all the food we ate and drank in Asheville, which is a rockin’  town, especially for food: sweet…

So we’re back home for a few days after readings/signings in Alabama and Mississippi–Birmingham, Montgomery, Fairhope, Jackson, and Greenwood. This Saturday we head to Woodstock, Ga.; Asheville, NC; Charlotte, NC; and Atlanta. The baby did as well as we could possibly hope for on the trip, and we had a few wonderful surprises. Our friend…

So it is now the official release day for Come in and Cover Me. I just got back from an interview for our local ABC station. I’m getting a little concerned because at each interview lately–I did local NPR yesterday–as I’m waiting to go on-air, I inevitably start humming a really inappropriate song from Book…

Yesterday the January issue of Elle magazine hit the stands, and it has a review of Come in and Cover Me written by the lovely Kate Christensen. (If you haven’t read The Great Man and The Epicure’s Lament, you should get them for the holidays.) It’s an awfully nice review…so much more fun to read…