It's Here...and There Now, Too

So... today's the release date for Biting Back... and I almost forgot mention it here on the blog.   Everyone who's read it and confessed as much to me has had something nice to say about it: so many love the title, lots love the writing, tons are crazy about the cover and layout, and simply everyone tells me, too, how they also love the feel of it. 

Llewellyn really did do an incredible job:  the book really is nice to hold, to look at, to touch - even to read!  I don't know what kind of paper that is they used, but it's delicious.  I discovered this morning on the Llewellyn website that they also have what is surely the coolest "look inside this book" gadget I've ever seen :  You can check it out here: biting back look inside this book gadget .

The book is available at Amazon and Llewellyn, of course - at Barnes and Noble and just about everywhere else, too, I think.  My new friend Marilyn at Page by Page Books will have it too:  she's hosting my launch and signing on September 17th, from 5-7 p.m, and it sounds like she's going to do a really lovely job.  I'll announce it again when I'm absolutely positive about the details.  I'm supposed to get up and read out loud to you guys.  Ahem.

We'll see about that!

Anyway:  while I've had such kind feedback on the book so far that I would blush to share it, there is one thing I've heard that I just have to tell you about:

I gave a copy of BB to my wonderful hairdresser (Jaye McDonald/owner of Bella Vita Salon in Polson) - and although she didn't have time to read it that first night after I gave it to her, her husband, Brian, did.  Brian called first my husband Robert and then later on, me, too - to say how much he enjoyed it.  But it was something he said to Jaye that just about killed me:  After reading it, she told me, he came into the room where she was resting and said, "Hey honey?  Am I ever a vampire to you?" 

Can you imagine?  Talk about great husbands!  And talk about great results I never in a million years anticipated! 

Which is one of the things I LOVE about books:  there's just no telling all the wonderful things that people might see in them, you know?  You can't even begin to guess.

Thanks, Readers.  Writers.  Publishers.  Libraries.  Bookstores.

Folks. 

Thanks.