Good News, Then Better

There I was, high in the Chilcotin Plateau, with a temperature of -15. I was standing outside my truck taking the call, which I couldn’t manage to put through the truck’s phone system. So, fingers numb with cold and teeth chattering, I stood by the side of the road to phone my faithful secretary, Lauralee, and ask her what was so damned important that she needed to talk to me immediately. My first thought was that there was some major screw up at the law firm.

When I got her on the phone, Lauralee was almost hanging from the ceiling with excitement. The first piece of news was that the airport bookstore chain had purchased 1500 copies of Gauntlet, and was prepared to give the book a prominent display position in the stores. The volume of people passing by, and the fact that many will be sitting in planes for hours on end, make this a particularly appealing place for selling such a book.

The second bit of news came from my publicist, Antoinette Kuritz, who advised me that John Lescroart, that’s right THE John Lescroart (Betrayal, The Suspect, The Hunt Club, The Motive, The Second Chair, Guilt, A Certain Justice, etc), a New York Times best selling author said, in an email to Antoinette, that Gauntlet is a tour de force of exuberant story telling … that it could very well be the definitive reality based global thriller. That it has great suspense, a killer plot and amazingly real characters. And that it’s an absolute winner.

My first thought was that somehow he had me confused with someone else. But when I returned to the office and read the emails I see he hasn’t. I’m humbled that a man with the skill and experience of Mr. Lescroart was so effusive in his praise. On top of the orders my publisher received yesterday, I’m starting to feel as though we have a tiger by the tail here.

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