I am going to Malice Domestic

I know there were some glitches on the Malice Domestic website recently, and I believe they have been fixed. Just to reassure any of you wondering, I will be attending (my name got dropped from the list, along with a number of others). Thanks for your patience!

And...it's been a crazy couple of weeks. I'm behind on blogging (and email and sleeping and laundry), but on the other hand, I met three deadlines that just happened to fall in the same week. Yeep. I had a fabulous time at the South Carolina Festival of Books, and will get back to you with more details (and, one hopes, some pictures) very soon.

One amusing note: on the way back from Columbia, SC, my suitcase didn't quite keep up with me, and I had to put in a report to have it delivered to the house. Asked for a description, what could I do? I'm a writer, coming back from a conference, so it was the standard "black wheelie bag, full of books, papers, and dirty clothes." There was one difference: I was able to tell the airline that there was a one pound bag of grits in the bag, one of the welcome gifts from the Festival folks.

I hastily reassured my husband that the grits weren't cooked.

Locally milled grits, from a historic mill. I was psyched and I've already got a recipe already picked out: grits with wild mushrooms. Ooh, baby.