Hi All -
Some of us went up to Boston to visit Tamora ("Call me Tammy") Pierce. She was a riot. She talked about how she comes up with her characters (clips cool looking picture of people out magazines and uses them as models) and how plot is actually way trickier to get right than characters.

She also told us that she is going to be writing a book that comes out FIRST as a full cast audio CD before it is pbulished as a printed book! This is kind of weird but she's a good friend of Bruce Coville who is now publishing audiobooks of full cast productions of books already written, and it seems to be the next best thing.

I went to a cool music festival yesterday - The Rhythm and Roots Festival - in Rhode Island. It was really fun. A lot of dancing and eating of Cajun cooking. Next week I drive out to Chicago to take Anna to college. University of Chicago starts late. It sounds kind of like Eleanor's school in that it has 3 terms and people only take 3 to 4 courses at a time. Lots of reading, though.

See y'all on Wed.