Just to keep you in the loop, here's some info I posted over on the Good Girl's site earlier this week:

We had snow flurries here yesterday morning and there was great rejoicing in our house. For the last four years, the only time our family saw snow was on television. I have to say that I’d forgotten just how icy the wind is that accompanies those flurries.

It feels like December: snow, Christmas shopping, and book promotion.

I know, that last item doesn’t quite go with all the others on the list, but since my third Mom Zone mystery will arrive in bookstores in April 2008 (glimpse of cover of Getting Away is Deadly here), I have a few things that must be done now.

I’m beginning to get into the rhythm of this book promotion thing. It has seasons.

Winter is for galleys, ordering bookmarks, and pitching articles. Scheduling events begins in the winter and spills over into the Spring. Springtime is also when I hit local media hard with press releases about my book and events. For me, April means book signings, library events, contest giveaways, and newsletter updates. Summer is a time to recover and start thinking about the next book, if not actually writing it. Fall is for scribbling away on the book and for copy edits and page proofs.

Of course, if I think about all that right now, I get slightly freaked out, so I’m just going to concentrate on galleys, which arrived last week in all their pale green glory. And a few other minor things like updating my press kit, revamping my website, and — oh yeah — finishing book #4.

Somewhere in there I really have to go Christmas shopping, too.

Does it feel like Christmas where you are? Any snow? Possibility of two inches here or so they say…