There must be a joke in this story somewhere. It all started a few weeks ago when I received an email from a soldier stationed in Iraq. He explained to me that his girlfriend’s birthday was coming up, and he’d like to give her a copy of a book signed by her favorite author. That…

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about silence lately and how little of it we have these days. We’re surrounded by noise, and so much of it doesn’t make an audible sound: the email we write and read, the web sites we check, the Facebook statuses we scroll through, even this blog post. All of…

I’m very excited to launch my new web site and this blog to accompany it as we start counting the months until the June 14 publication of my new novel, Break the Skin. Galleys should be available soon, probably sometime this week, and foreign rights have already been sold to an Italian publisher. I’m keeping…