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October 7, 2009
My dear friends,

I am so remiss in SO many areas at the moment it would seem, judging from this website, that I froze in time around 3 years ago.  (LOL)

I know I keep saying I’m on a deadline that has me all wrapped up and, indeed, I am, but I am on deadline for a project that began only last fall, instead of the project that began five years (which is very much alive) and another that started fourteen years ago (which is also very much alive).

The long and short of it this--  SOME day soon I shall have my ducks in a row and will update and upgrade LauraVanWormer.com, to say nothing of my mailing lists and doing some speaking.

In the meantime, though I ended up doing essentially nothing to promote RIVERSIDE PARK (yes, deadline), MIRA evidently did their job of distributing it well because I have gotten a ton of mail about it recently.  Thank you.

A couple of questions keep coming up.

Question: Am I going to write any more Sally Harrington mysteries?

That is to say in addition to?
EXPOSE (there’s supposed to be an accent over that last e)
THE LAST LOVER
TROUBLE BECOMES HER
THE BAD WITNESS
THE KILL FEE
MR. MURDER

Answer:  I don’t know when, but Sally will definitely be back.  For those of you have not read RIVERSIDE PARK, Sally makes a cameo in that.

Question: What ARE the RIVERSIDE DRIVE novels, if one wanted to follow the characters?

Answer:
RIVERSIDE DRIVE
WEST END
ANY GIVEN MOMENT
TALK
then all of the Sally Harrington novels (Sally works for Alexandra Waring at DBS, the network created in WEST END)
RIVERSIDE PARK, wrapping up the neighborhood

I have also written three other novels, some of whose characters are glimpsed in the Riverside or Sally Harrington books, but for the most part are confined to one finite tale:

BENEDICT CANYON
JURY DUTY
JUST FOR THE SUMMER

All three are being republished and I shall have news for you on that soon.

BENEDICT CANYON has been out of print for some time, although the audio editions have continued to sell and expand into Mp3 downloads, etc., from Brilliance Audio.  It is the only novel of mine that runs unabridged.  (18 hours?  From NYC to around Atlanta, driving, someone wrote me.)

Okay, I wanted to answer those questions and to thank you for your many kind responses to RIVERSIDE PARK.  I do read and think about every one.

Hope you and yours are all very well.

With all my very best,