An important decision. I'm renting an Exhibitor's Booth @ the First-Year Experience ! 29th Annual Conference, Denver, Feb 12 - 16. Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel Booth 308 ! , with Judy Bernstein, author/co-author of They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky, also published by PublicAffairs. We believe in our books, know they will be excellent in college First-Year Experience. Other presses are taking their writers to the conference, but PublicAffairs can't afford that. They are kind enough to send us each two boxes of our books. If we sell them we keep the money. If we give them away, then we give them away. They're doing what they can. PublicAffairs is part of Perseus, Perseus is in Booth 316, just a couple tables over. They'll have catalogues with our books in them. We'll have our books! It's a match made in heaven. So Judy & I decided, "Let's go to Denver. Let's meet the people who make the decisions to assign books to incoming college Freshmen." So come visit us!

I've signed a contract with HeLT Consulting, in Chicago, run by Heidi Toboni, who was recommended by Kelly Hughes. Heidi consults and books authors as speakers. I'm excited to work with her, developing this aspect of the What Else But Home story, excited to speak more about parenting, fathering, the sacred and social issues that I've been lucky to speak with people about during my book tour.

My friend Michael Cecconi took this photo in the bookstore in the San Francisco airport...

I know it's self congratulatory, but it's awfully nice to see. Okay, so they're making Lego sculptures of Dan Brown books, but hey, still...

In this near year, I didn't thank Sandee Brawarski and the good people she worked with, Matthew Aaron Goodman (Hold Love Strong).