Here Comes the Fun

Well, tomorrow's the official pub date of Fun & Games, though copies have been leaking out into the wild for a good couple of weeks. I have that familiar cocktail of pre-release excitement and worry roiling around in my guts. Will you guys dig it? Did I screw up any of the California details? Was my name misspelled on the spine of the book?

But such worries have been alleviated by a lot of kind e-mails and Tweets from early F&G readers, as well as this very cool review by Marilyn Stasio in the New York Times Book Review, who called the novel "so much fun to read--on the couch or on the run."

And just this morning I woke up to see that a Q&A I did with CNN's Christian DuChateau was linked on the site's home page. (Quite a nice Father's Day present, I must say.)

All of this follows on the heels of Elizabeth A. White's "Swierczynski Week," in which she sullied the good name of her otherwise excellent book blog with reviews of my stuff.

Meanwhile, it's not too late to enter the Fun & Games Giveaway! You can find the complete details (and entry form) right here, but in short: if you pre-order/order a copy between now and midnight tomorrow (Monday, June 20th), I'll be sending you a personalized post card from somewhere on my book tour this summer. And five random winners will score other pulpy prizes, including the right to name a character in the third Charlie Hardie novel.