SARAH AND ZANE AND MATTHEW ARE ALMOST HOME

THOSE OF YOU who read very very closely the acknowledgments of my first book know of my fondness for this little family, who have been traveling in IRELAND.

MEANWHILE: I have been at BEA, signing TAXONOMIES OF COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE and meeting booksellers/bookreaders/bookeaters in Los Angeles.

ED HUMES WAS THERE.

THE LAST TIME I was at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Coulton and I were podcasting from the 2005 E3.

THIS TIME=fewer people dressed as zombies, stormtroopers, and warrior princesses. But one man who was trying to sell his book on gardening did force me to smell two gigantic sprigs of rosemary he was carrying around; and another man was very convincingly dressed as TED TURNER.

That is all