Okay, maybe not. The basketball dream eluded me due to…what was it, a bad knee? Hamstring? Oh, no, it was a total lack of talent. Right. So while that Parade list is out of reach, it was still pretty exciting to be a Parade Magazine pick for summer reading. None other than Willie Nelson on the cover, and 50 Cent inside! I’ve always considered myself closely aligned with those two.
“A fast, eerie chiller of a book that will make you shiver in the sun,” claims Parade.
http://www.parade.com/parade-picks/2010/06/27-summer-reads-fiction.html
The St. Petersburg Times agrees, promising something to “chill you on a steamy summer afternoon,” in this very generous review complete with a great photo of the West Baden Springs Hotel:
http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/a-horror-hotel-to-die-for/1104160
Amazon’s Daphne Durham conducted a wonderful interview for their podcast series: http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/mOU3R35CJ4QY4
Entertainment Weekly (Stieg Larsson on the cover, an oddly literary-focused edition!) brings back plenty of high school memories for me. First of all, they offered a B grade, which always pleased me then and still does today, and then they call me “more creepy than truly terrifying” which is how I was generally described by girls.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20394477,00.html
We got the cover story in the always-wonderful Mystery Scene:
http://mysteryscenemag.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1410:summer-2010-issue-115-contents&catid=20:articles
The Sydney Morning Herald offers a nice piece upon release of the book in Australia, a place I’m already eager to visit again:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/in-for-serious-thrills-20100621-yq51.html
I want to thank everyone who has come out to the various tour stops — only one left, Tampa on Tuesday, and then a short trip to Canada. It’s been a wonderful time, and I’m deeply grateful for the support the book has received.
Once the tour winds down, it’s back to writing — books, first and foremost, but also hopefully a blog or two of more substance and fewer links. We’ll see if I deliver on that…