Good news, bad news

The good news is that I received the interior page design for THE FIRST BETRAYAL yesterday, and it's gorgeous. There's a wonderful lizard on the title page, and as the graphic next to the chapter headings. It's absolutely perfect. The folks at Bantam do a great job.

The bad news is that I'm here to tell you about this. I had been scheduled to fly down to Fort Lauderdale today to visit my brother, his wife, and my two nieces. But Fort Lauderdale is right in the path of Tropical Storm Katrina, and the odds of my flight making it down there were pretty grim. So I had to cancel today's trip and reschedule.

Disappointed, but that's the way things go. Better to reschedule now than to get stuck en route and burn up a valuable vacation day going nowhere.