Given the dearth of bloggy entries of late, I’ve decided that I should broaden my scope of topics or this blog will waste away into nothingness. (Or at least during the sleepy lull between the hardcover publication of The Colony, some six months ago, and the upcoming paperback release.)

Before things wander too far afield from the book front, however, I want to congratulate my editor, Lisa Drew, on her retirement after 45 years in the business. Lisa was one of the first female editors in a very male-dominated book world, and during the course of her remarkable career she edited everyone from Alex Haley to Millie Bush. I find it telling that it was not a scribbling lap dog that tipped her into retirement, but me.

(Okay, so I wasn’t Lisa’s very last author. But I’m in the final dozen!)