Unbelievable. My apologies to anyone who may still be keeping an eye on this space, or anyone who may be wondering if I've died or fallen off the edge of the earth, or both (you could just ask - if you don't hear back, it's likely the answer is "yes"). I tried calling in to work dead, once, but my boss said I sounded entirely too chipper. Apparently, editing a tech manual doesn't count as "decomposition" no matter how much you delete or rewrite. I don't suppose it helped that I was working at my desk at the time, and she could see from her office to mine that I was still breathing and that my fingers were still flying across the keyboard. Oh, the things we do for entertainment around here...

Trockle has finally debuted with a book signing at the North Texas Book Festival in Denton, TX, last weekend. Click here to see pictures. It turned out beautifully - so well, in fact, that the book is already back ordered. The publisher, 4RV Publishing LLC, should be getting another shipment within a week or three. (Here's hoping it's within a week, since there's another book signing scheduled for the OWFI Conference in Oklahoma City on May 3. It would be very nice to have books to sign, while I'm there!)

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