JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING: As you're reading this, I'm at New England Crime Bake (along with Hank, Hallie, and many of your fave authors.) This is a kind of prelude to the main event upcoming in my life: the release of AT MIDNIGHT COMES THE CRY on November 18. (Rhys's FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE comes out the same day, so make sure you've pre-ordered!)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an author with a new release is in need of a book tour. My last release day was April 4, 2020. Do any of you remember what you were doing on April 4, 2020? Were you going to a library or a bookstore to hear me speak? No, you were not. You were home tearing old t-shirts into toilet paper and washing the groceries.
So it's been a while. I'm booked for a shorter tour this time - I'm only flying to Scottsdale (PHX) and Houston (IAH.) Fortunately, there isn't any nation-wide, record-breaking problem that might interfere with my travels...
I'm not saying I'm causing these things to happen, you understand. I'm just saying - maybe stop hoping I'll put out a book each year.
After I get back home (please, God, please) I'm touring around New England and upstate New York, staying with friends and, you know, just enjoying the vacation paradise that is upstate New York in late November.
So the writing I'm doing? Emails - emails to confirm, to make changes, to find out when my REAL ID is going to arrive (that's a whole other story.) To-Do lists: packing, what I need to do to get things ready for the pet sitter, finishing touches on the new website, keeping up with my college students (yes, still teaching two sections this fall!) And commenting as everything ramps up; on Facebook, here, on the aforementioned students' papers. (Most frequent advice to students: proofread.)
If you're going to be around and about (assuming this time, like, a meteor won't strike the earth,) here's where I'll be:
