


This year I've got to juggle gigs and guests and conferences and books. The good news is I've stopped being optimistic about what I can accomplish in any given amount of time. I can't honestly say that this year isn't what I expected, because I've learned that now days none of the years are what I expect. Not that it will stop all the emails, but maybe it will forestall a few. Basically, I wanted to give an official update. However, sharing my freakout over my poor little dog and our local vet shortage wasn't my intention for this post. (The SO just texted me that there is one vet and three dogs with rattlesnake bites!!) But when it comes to trying to diagnose my dog while he's having what looks like an asthma attack. I never ran into this until these last few years, and it's hard to get used to. There is literally ONE animal emergency center out here. But that would have been a total of TWENTY FREAKING DAYS OF HIS BEING SICK AND NOT BEING ABLE TO BREATHE NORMALLY. Hopefully, I'm overreacting and he would have been fine going another FIVE FLIPPING DAYS without seeing a vet (which is the soonest we could have got him in if we hadn't gone the emergency route). NOT BEING ABLE TO BREATHE PROPERLY IS AN EMERGENCY.Īnyway. Nobody seems to think this is an emergency except me. Marlowe is at the emergency room right now because I had a panic attack last night listening to him struggle to breathe. All of them inevitable and normal and reasonable. Easter, graduation party, birthday party, allergies, TAXES (UGH), sick doggie, on and on and on with the interruptions and distractions. So April was one of those months not particularly conducive to writing. You know you're going through something when you wake up in the morning worrying about whether the pine tree outside your window has too many pine cones on it. Several mysterious accidents later, Ellery is less delightedĪs his suspicion grows that someone plans to silence the celebrity songbird Which will hopefully bring large crowds and a lot of business. Piece of music attributed to “The Father of American Music,” Stephen Foster, The quaint seaside village is delighted-including mystery bookstore owner andīetter yet, Lara is scheduled to perform a recently discovered When legendary folk singer Lara Fairplay agrees to make herĬomeback debut at Pirate’s Cove’s annual maritime music festival, everyone in Oh, and good news for my Dutch readers: UITGEVERIJ DE FONTEIN, a division of VBK Media, has just contracted books 6 and 7 in the series (which means audio there as well).

Matt Haynes returns to give us another brilliant and quirky reading of Ellery Page's sixth adventure. Or enough days!Īnyway, LAMENT AT LOON LANDING is now available on Audible (and soon to be on iTunes and Amazon). There are simply not enough hours in the day. Way behind on any social interaction at all, I know.
