{"id":63,"date":"2006-11-29T18:25:19","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T00:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?p=63"},"modified":"2006-11-29T18:25:19","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T00:25:19","slug":"busy-busy-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Busy, Busy, Busy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Hornswoggled<\/em> came out in September, it’s been a constant round of talks and signings for me. I’m more than gratified to be asked to do so many events, but I must say, I’m getting rather pooped. The last several events have all been very nice, though. I did a lovely charity event on November 11 with Betty Webb, author of the Lena Jones mystery series, whose latest book Desert Run<\/em> just came out recently. Then on the 13th Don and I drove up to Fountain Hills, AZ, where I spoke to an extremely warm group of people who belong to a mystery book group. <\/p>\n

On the 15th and 16th, I did several events in Mesa and Scottsdale, AZ, in connection with the Arizona Library Association annual conference. I only spent half a day at the conference on the 15th, which was good, since it was my wedding anniversary and I was glad to be able to at least go out and eat together that night. But on the 16th, I was busy from 8:00 am until 9:00 pm. I had to get up at 5:45 in order to pretty myself up and get to Mesa in time for the 8 o’clock panel, which nearly did me in. I used to have a normal schedule, but since I’ve left the workday routine, I tend to stay up until one o’clock in the morning and arise around nine. I can only hope that I was coherent that day.<\/p>\n

I did, however, get to spend the time with Carolyn Hart, she of the 40 novels and many awards, including a Pulitzer nomination and a Mystery Writers’ of America Lifetime Achievement award (and fellow Oklahoman). She had flown in especially for the event, and was carless, so I jumped on the chance to volunteer to chauffeur her around all day. We had a wonderful time eating Mexican food and driving from gig to gig in Mesa and Scottsdale. She really knows the business, and she gave me all kinds of inside scoop. I gave her a copy of Hornswoggled<\/em> on the evening of the 15th, and when I saw her the next morning, she had finished it! She told me she liked it very much, too. (Whew) Carolyn and I philosophized a lot about the significance and future of the mystery novel, which stood me in good stead last weekend, when I drove down to Tucson to do a Holiday event at Clues Unlimited Bookstore. Every year, the owner, Chris Acevedo, invites several Arizona mystery authors to participate in a panel. This is a very well attended event, and much to my delight, the topic of discussion was the significance and future of the mystery novel! I sounded deep and erudite and knowledgeable, thanks to the fact that I stole half my comments from Carolyn Hart. <\/p>\n

I have three scheduled events left to do this year; library talks in Gilbert and Tempe, AZ, and a keynote speech at a writers’ event in Glendale, AZ (the date of which was changed from Nov. 25 to Dec. 16. Please see the Events page for dates and times) And then the Hornswoggled<\/em> publicity circuit is over.<\/p>\n

Finally, I just finished a “final” draft of the third book in my Alafair Tucker series, and am just writing up the recipes now, before I send it to my editor in a week or two. But that’s another story…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since Hornswoggled came out in September, it’s been a constant round of talks and signings for me. I’m more than gratified to be asked to do so many events, but I must say, I’m getting rather pooped. The last several events have all been very nice, though. I did a lovely charity event on November […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writer-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2H58s-11","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}