Friends-

I know it has been kind of quiet from here for a while. I have to confess to sort of taking the summer off and enjoying it. Getting The Permanent Plan out was stressful and a long process. So…we went to see Crosby, Stills and Nash in concert at the St. Michelle Winery and to travel around Washington, Idaho, and Vancouver BC to visit friends and relatives in June. I went to Houston to play in a company golf tournament in late June, and we traveled to Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota in early August. The rest of the time was spent trying to squeeze some golf games and some yard projects between the rain storms in Alaska.

It’s time to get busy. I have two great books out there that are in need of some serious marketing efforts. For my Alaska friends, I have a book signing coming up this week at The Petroleum Club of Anchorage (3300 C Street, in the Calais Building). The signing will be from 5-7, on Thursday, September 9th, with light appetizers provided. The weekend that follows the book signing will be spent in the Alaska Writers Guild 2010 Writers Conference. There will be publishers, writers, and literary agents from outside of Alaska making presentations, and I have a scheduled conference with one of them to discuss my work.

Reviews of The Permanent Plan have been very good. With a couple of exceptions, everyone claims to like it better than Saylor’s Triangle. I really need some formal reviews on Amazon for any of you who would be willing to do that. You don’t need to have bought The Permanent Plan on Amazon to do a review, but you need to have bought a book (or books) through them.

A big “thank you” goes out to Kay Cashman, publisher of the Petroleum News for the nice article she just put in her newspaper recently. My thanks also to Anne Cassens, publisher of my hometown newspaper for her support.

I will be in Arizona on October 6th, and plan to do several book club events and book signings in Tucson and in the Phoenix area over the following six weeks. I am also in line and hoping for a position in the Alaska Book Fair at the Anchorage Museum the weekend after Thanksgiving.

Thanks to all of you for your support (in one way or another at one time or another).