Was stuck in traffic—who in the seven names of Hell scheduled road construction on the top end perimeter during rush hour? and why didn't the supposed-to-be-useful signs on the road not say there was an obstruction ahead?—so had to take the long way home. Figured I deserved a treat after an hour of stop and go traffic and stopped at Barnes & Noble. Looking to see if Mercedes Lackey's third Elemental Masters novel was out in paperback yet (nope, October 4) or if by any chance the paperback copy of Laurien Berenson's Jingle Bell Bark had been released early (no dice)—but ended up emerging with the fourth Magickers book and The War of the Worlds Murders by Max Allan Collins. (How could I resist a book that involved OTR?)

The Snoopy dance part is finding out that Richard Lederer has a new book out: Revenge of Anguished English. I found it at Borders and put it on reserve because I have a 20 percent off one hardback coupon.

Speaking of Mercedes Lackey, she has a page on her site that talks about the people who believe the subjects she writes about in her urban fantasies are true and all the problems they have caused her. Three of these books are the Diana Tregarde Investigations, which are horror novels. (I don't usually read horror, as they creep me out, but I made an exception for the Tregarde stuff, even though some of the horror parts were hard slogging.) Anyway, Lackey says there had been rumors that she didn't write any more of the books because what she wrote about was true and she had been forced into not writing any more, because she was giving away secrets! She sharply pooh-poohed that and said she quit writing them because they didn't sell well. She had to make a living and she just wasn't getting income from them.

Well, someone must be interested in them again, because I noticed both Dark Water and Children of the Night have been reprinted, both in paperback and trade paper. Diana's lover in two of the three novels is a charming, sexy vampire named Andre, so maybe they're being republished to fall in with the trend of charming sexy vampires in fiction books and in television shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. But after the fuss she made about them not selling well, it was a surprise to see them back on the racks.

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Comments:

Hmmm. Didn't Sirius 151 give you some warning on this?

BTW, on the 29th they'll be rearranging their lineup. A PDF on it is at http://cdn.sirius.com/pdf/SIRIUS_092905_channelguide.pdf

# posted by  Jerry : 10:24:00 AM

 

Yes, they did, but only after I got onto 285. They had to get through the Boston traffic first. On September 29, Atlanta gets its own traffic channel, which is good. I hope they're more accurate: the Saturday of Dragoncon we were stopped dead in the middle of I-75 North south of Delk Road for a half hour, with the Sirius traffic report running the entire time and they never once mentioned that the accident had the freeway shut down because they had to send in the Lifeline helicopter. (Someone driving at 75 without seat belts again...sigh.)

# posted by  Linda : 1:53:00 PM

 

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