It’s been a while since I’ve added to my blog, but that doesn’t mean nothing is happening.  For example, my puppy, Audrey, went on vacation with my son, Ari, and saw The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.  The outing, which was a group trip with The Eyes of Hope, our Essex County Seeing Eye club, included The Farmers’ Museum.  The club members and puppies also rode on an antique train.  It was a fun outing for everyone with the added benefit of socializing the puppies to more unusual situations.  Now they know how to stay in motels, eat in restaurants and behave when faced with unusual looking dogs (horses, cows, goats, etc.) 

While Audrey was having her adventure, I was getting news about my fifth book in the Wally Morris series.  It was while I was having lunch with several other Avalon authors at the New Jersey Romance Writers conference.  I know it sounds strange that I was there since I don’t write romance, but it’s a great conference and I never miss it.  

I was sitting next to my friend, Roni Denholtz, who had just won the Golden Leaf award for her Regency, MARQUIS IN A MINUTE (http://www.ronidenholtz.com/).  Our editor came in, looked at Roni and at me and pointed at both of us, then said, “I’m buying both your books.”  After the confusion about why she’d have to buy books from us cleared (there is a book fair at the end of the conference and people were all thinking about that) we all celebrated, although I think it was mostly about Roni’s big win the night before.

 I don’t have an exact date yet, but my new book is in the queue at Avalon.  The title is VENGEANCE RUNS COLD and in it Wally will be traveling to the Adirondacks.  There will be ice, there will be cold, and there will be murder.  Stay tuned.