I'm nobody. Who are you? Are you nobody too? -- Emily Dickinson illustration by Gareth Southwell There's a certain freedom, if you're a writer, in the knowledge that very few people are going to read your blog posts. Sure, it's good practice to put together the best sentences and paragraphs you can manage, and do it on a regular basis in your blog. Me, I just look at my blog as a place to tell a few close friends what's on my mind without actually talking to them. And that's

Raúl Garcia, my very long-time friend, and one of the founders of Edgefactory, a PR firm in Orlando, Florida, suggested creating a book launch event in our mutual home town for my new novel out from Liffey Press, the literary imprint of Oghma Creative Media, Inc. What might have been a typical reading and Q&A in Brownwood, Texas, Raúl turned into the Ideal Deluxe Author Event of a lifetime. For starters, when Cindy and I arrived at our hotel the evening before the reading, an