August 13th, 2007

I’m disappointed in the sales for Tales Behind the Tombstones. I thought it would do better than what it has. Maybe it needs to be out there a bit longer. The Lady Was a Gambler comes out in October. I think that will do well. I always thought writing books would look like it did for Kathleen Turner’s character in Romancing the Stone. The words would pour out of her fingers onto the typewriter. She’d celebrate the completion of the book with her cat, deliver it to her publisher, who would read it right then and who loved the work, and would put the promotional staff at the publishing house to work promoting the book. Few things are as good as they appear in the movies.