First off, let me thank all of you who showed up at The Lion and Lamb Peace Center to help celebrate the launch of Lost Sons last night. The party was great fun, and a rollicking success. I hope you all had a great time, as well.

This morning I didn’t have time to recuperate, as I am off to Malice Domestic! As you read this, I am either driving to Detroit to catch my plane, or I’m on my plane heading for DC. Or, if you’re coming to this late, I am in DC already, and could be hanging out with Casey, CR, Jeff, or any number of other folks. Malice is always a good time, and you’ll probably get four separate reports next week.

In other news, I am in the middle of getting my first round of critiques for the juvenile fantasy I wrote during the last several months. Our blog friend Steve Faul, who is a fantastic writer of middle-grade fiction (I’ve had the honor of reading his as-yet unpublished manuscript which, by all rights, should be published), managed to wrest the book away from his cat, Lord Greye, long enough to do a thorough and entirely constructive critique, giving me lots of pointers and helpful suggestions which, I can already see, will make the book stronger. Thanks, Steve!

I’m also going back and forth between writing the first book of my new series for Poisoned Pen (which will come in the fall of 2008) and that women’s fiction I’ve told you about. It’s great having two projects going, and having the freedom to work on the one which is uppermost in my mind at the moment. But I need to get a move-on, because come the end of May the kids will be home for the summer, and writing will have to take a back seat to swimming, traveling, and chaperoning the kid to their various camps, Bible schools, and athletic events. I do love summer!

Have a great day, and I’ll see you next week! Unless I see you at Malice first…