My book tour is in full swing. I had a fine time at the Edgars, scoring photo ops with best novel nominee Ken Bruen, best first novel nominee Craig McDonald, and the incomparable and always gracious Mary Higgins Clark. Very, very early the next morning, I got up to catch a plane to Arizona. Between visits to mystery bookstores Clues Unlimited and the Poisoned Pen and a TV appearance on Good Morning Arizona, I got to enjoy the crisp air, clean blue sky, summer temperatures, and omnipresent feathery mesquite trees and flowering palo verde and oleander. I spent more time at the computer than at the pool, but I'm not complaining: good news included my making the #3 spot on Mystery Lovers' hardcover bestseller list for April and a fine review of Death Will Get You Sober from respected mystery reviewer Oline H. Cogdill. Next stop: Florida.