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Well, there is a bright side to that hard-knocks advice and it comes to your doorstep in the persona of the UPS man. Your books have arrived—real books, with their fresh stiff bindings just begging to be broken by someone curled up for a night of reading—and everything you’ve gone through up to that point has suddenly been worth it
My typically joyous reaction was a bit delayed this time around. Normally I would rip open the door and tear into the box before even signing the receipt. But since my current book is a chronicle of my clandestine adventures growing pot (in this very house), it’s still my habit to treat any ring of the doorbell in the same manner as Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs—as if it were a screeching alarm telling me the cops had arrived and it was time to barricade the fortress.
But it was no decoy designed to lure me outside where it would be easier for the DEA to throw a net on me. Officially, Pot Inc. will be on sale next Tuesday, April 3. But unofficially, there will be a limited number of advanced copies on sale for those lucky enough to live in the Denver area a few days before then. I’ll be one of three authors speaking on a panel at Lighthouse Writers Workshop this Saturday, March 31 at 7 p.m. We’ll be discussing how our books went through the process from the first hare-brained idea to the finished product. There will be wine and refreshments and Lighthouse’s famous convivial atmosphere. The event is open to the public and I hope to see many of you there.
A few days after Pot Inc. arrived, I got another surprise. When the doorbell rang again, I thought for sure that this was it. In typical DEA style, they’d botched the first raid and followed the wrong UPS truck, I thought. Peeking through the curtains, I saw another box on the doorstep and I approached it as if I were expecting something from Ted Kaczynski. It was nothing sinister … on the contrary, it was a double-dose of publishing’s true reward: a box filled with new editions of Blood Diamonds, which is on sale as a 10th anniversary edition with new material from my trip to Sierra Leone last year.
You can find both of these titles at your favorite local or online retailer; meanwhile, I’m off to shop for a new bookshelf.
