You're doing readings/signings down here, right? Is that the Thanksgiving weekend?

Sean, waiting to hear back from Rachel at St. Martins, but it will likely be the first weekend after the Thanksgiving weekend for LA - Jo's here for Thanksgiving and even though she's staying with Jerry, I'm hoping to get her for a bit before she goes east on Saturday night. And we're hopefully going to watch the Raiders kick crap out of the Broncos on that Sunday. So likely early December, first at Barnes and Noble at the Grove, then Book Soup, after which a dinner at Gardens of Taxco.

EXCELLENT!!!

My familial units will be gathering at a house in Pismo Beach for Thanksgiving, so I was hoping I wouldn't miss any signings or anything.

I wanted to be a giddy fan who's so breathless he practically faints when meeting The Author...

Deb, I'd like to. We'll be out of town Thanksgiving week, though -- the usual family trip. The kids miss you, and I need to bring them up again.

Betsy, what about the Angel premiere? Will that be too late for them?

And there's always the Halloween party, if it won't be too nuts for you guys. I miss them both, and Jim as well.

Deb - that's great.

Is the book coming out in October? Or later?

So, in some other thread I posted the story about my dad and the Buffybook...well, I was paging through it and there's an e-mail in it...I think he thinks this author can give me writing advice(I think he thinks writing's a secret society with a secret knock I can only get from an "in") Well, cool, except she writes like ass...I'm reading along thinking "I could take her. Ficcers I know could beat her like she stole something, man. How does this happen?" Guess I can't send that in e-mail, huh?

erika, whover she is? I bet you can take her. Because erika got voice, baybee.

sumi, see tagline, adjusted for retail. Official release date is 1 December; it's one of their Christmas market books. Yowsa!

Speaking of which, I got an email from Ruth (editor) this morning. She loved the blurb, will probably have it used in all the promotional material and extracted the two killer bits, which will go together on the back cover ("Weaver" is hardback), thusly:

"The Weaver and the Factory Maid" is nominally about music and ghosts, but what this mystery has in even greater abundance is heart and soul. It is charming, in all senses of the word, but also a meditation on love and eternity and all the lives that have been lived, for good or ill, in fields and cottages far from History's main roads."

--Tad Williams, author of War of the Flowers

I am soooooo pleased.

Yay, you. And yes, I think I've got a few skills Not that I haven't got stuff to learn, but I like to be taught by people who know more than I do. And she has descriptoritis, e.g. red-haired witch, blonde slayer.(Neat trick getting people to pay for stuff I wouldn't do for free...that's the secret I want.) That doesn't make what my dad did any less thoughtful, though. Cause I know the whole writing thing(to say nothing of the Buffy thing) are things he doesn't get.

It really *was* sweet of him, thinking about it.