Alice, I Think poll…
I’m not sure how many people are visiting the CTV site anymore (Alice is only on in reruns on the Comedy Network), but if you’re interested in a second season, feel free to vote. As yet there is no news about a second season. Word has it that the decision will be made early in the new year. I’ll keep you posted.
You might think that I have been very busy fielding phone calls from outraged human rights activists who are concerned that the banning of my books in Texas is going to have adverse affects on the development and long term prospects of young people in the Lone Star State. Sadly, you’d be wrong. I think I will have to do more than threaten to bring a dirty cowboy (and pole routine) to my school talks to generate any sort of furor.
In fact, I’ve been very busy trying to finish a new book and putting the final touches to the copyedited version of Another Kind of Cowboy.
The new book is a mystery/detective comedy called A Mack Daddy Mystery. Researching it has required me to read the complete works of Micheal Connelly (certainly no hardship), as well as Dennis Lehane, Raymond Chandler, Elmore Leonard and Chuck Hogan. As a result of reading all that hardboiled crime fiction, I’ve begun calling people “sweet cheeks” (an entirely different term than the one Mel Gibson used to address his female arresting officer) and looking for “perps” in my spare time. I’m also thinking of getting a “gat”. To balance out all the testosterone, I’ve been watching back-to-back episodes of Veronica Mars, which is definitely one of my top three shows of the moment, along with The Wire and Battlestar Galactica.
One exception to my all-crime, all-the-time, reading is a new book called Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill. I started it last night and it’s absolutely brilliant: beautiful and funny and sad. If you loved A Complicated Kindness, you’ll adore this. I heard Heather O’Neill reading from it on Jonathan Goldstein’s Wiretap several months ago and was very taken. The book has lived up to my expectations.