It’s not even officially May first yet (seven more minutes to go!), and already my family is perhaps getting a little sick of me talking about how I’m “on tour.” They are very tolerant people for the most part, but I’m not sure they’re really GETTING IT that I am not officially here, I am touring the blogosphere.

And therefore should not be expected to cook, I think.

Today’s stop is The Writer’s Life, which is a the blog of Dorothy Thompson. I’ll be talking about the release of my paperback, A Piece of Normal, which came out last month, published by Three Rivers Press.

I promise I won’t ONLY talk about my virtual book tour this whole month, but because I get to go on so many fun sites (sites that I’m just discovering, too!) I will tell you where I’ll be appearing each day, and hope that maybe you’ll come on over there, too, just to check it out.

Before I stop talking about the blog tour, though, may I just say that what’s been fun about this so far is that different sites have wanted different things from me, so it’s not like I just got to sit down and churn out some standard-issue info about the book and then send it out in a mass email. In that way, a virtual tour is a whole lot different from the go-into-the-bookstore tour, where you find yourself answering over and over again the following things: (1) where you get your ideas and (2) do you write in the morning or the afternoon, (3) what kind of pen do you prefer to write with, and (4) do you know which way is the restroom.

In other news, spring is officially here. It was 72 degrees with a 35 mph prevailing wind through the maple trees–and I sat on the back porch writing what surely are going to end up being The Last Few Chapters of This Novel…and every time I’d look up, I swear there were more leaves on the trees.

Happy spring! It is hard not to be happy on such a day. (And by the way…I should say that the house in that picture is NOT mine. I could only wish! It’s my friend Nancy’s. She took the picture…)

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