Hi all!
So, there’s news and more news. All of it good-ish news, since it isn’t world news or politics. Yuck. Trust me, you’ll never hear me nattering on about any of that.
I’m doing two signings. Yes, you read right. I had no intention of doing signings ever again as you well know, but Penguin Random House PR team requested I do at least one.
The first one is in July in Charlotte NC. It will be at Park Road Books on Thursday, July 16 at 7 P.M. There will be giveaways, maybe some treats if I can get by the bakery cookies, and I’ll do a reading. They used to have a very comfortable event area with seating. Fingers crossed it’s what y’all want and y’all show up. I’m really quite nervous. (704) 525-9239 and website is: https://parkroadbooks.com/ Park Road Shopping Center, 4139 Park Road, Charlotte NC. More info to come on May 22.
The second event is “An Evening with Faith” at Liberty Book Company in Rock Hill SC. I don’t have a firm date yet, so watch for it. The event will be after hours, with LOTS of giveaways! I will provide food (maybe pizza?) but can’t figure out how to feed all the different gluten-free eaters, food allergies, etc, so it will be basic: veggie pizza and meat pizza, and if you have a food issue, please don’t be made at me for not accommodating you! I will be happy for you bring your own and eat with us! I’ll provide colas and water. And I’ll read from things you haven’t heard – like the new book, Unpredictable Magic, and the new Junkyard Cats novella.
Penguin Random House has a giveaway for Unpredictable Magic starting Monday May 11. See the banner! Go! Enter!
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Moor book news: I am almost done with the new Junkyard Cats series novella. I give it one week and I’ll be done with the rough draft. I will give it a hard edit and then it’s off to a new editor. It’s long for a novella, y’all. It’s edging up to 50K words which is a LOT!
In personal news: I have a lovely garden area. I am so happy about the Japanese Maples and the potted thymes, my few sage plants, and three different flavored basils. I can’t eat from my garden soil for a few more years—since the pesticide poisoning—so all the edible stuff is potted. I try to put in 2 hours a day in the beds, but this week I have been lax. Well, I’ve been writing a bit more, trying to finish a novella, and it rained one day so much that the ground was a MUSHY red clay MESS! All that means I am behind, so I’ll hit the beds Saturday morning.
This spring, I did lose two JMs and I have fears for three more. I’m thinking hard about replacing the dead ones with bigger trees at end of summer. Maybe even ten-year old trees. I’m tired and sad seeing the young ones struggle!
It’s been a cold spring and paddling has been almost nonexistent. I finally went on Tuesday last, and made 6 laps, got to playing and swam 6 times. I’m not as strong yet as I need to be to try and get tricky. Haha! It was cold, even with 2 layers and a wetsuit. But it refreshed my soul. Mud wants me to do vids of me at the white-water center. Soooo… Maybe Sunday afternoon I’ll try to take some. I’ll be in 3 layers with a wetsuit on top, so I’ll look like I put on 50 pounds.
Over all, I’m happy with the books, the series (serieses?), and my life.
Love you all,
Faith