Thanks to all the good people at Goodreads who are reading and recommending my book. Like Melissa, who recently wrote:
“I was a little iffy about picking up this book. I wasn’t too sure that a male author could really write a book based on a female’s point of view and make me want to read it. I was completely surprised to find that Mr. Bishop did exactly that. From the moment I picked this book up I couldn’t put it down . . . ”
Thanks, Melissa, wherever you are.
Just received word that my new novel, The Night of the Comet, will be coming out next year, the summer of 2013, with Ballantine Books.
Yes, you can break out the champagne now.
I’ll be appearing at a Book Launch Celebration with other LA authors Christa Allen, Tom Carson, and Angus Woodward, next Tuesday, January 10, 7:00 pm at the Jefferson Parish Library. There might be cupcakes.
Letter to My Daughter is now listed with the Accelerate Reader Program. This means that students at high schools who use this service can get 7 (seven!) AR points for reading my book.
I recently submitted the manuscript for my next novel to Random House. Like Letter to My Daughter, it’s set in south Louisiana in the 1970s, but this one is more of a father-son story. More on it later . . .
I’ll be signing books at the New Orleans Jazz Fest tomorrow, May 5, from 12:00 til 1:00. Drop by the book tent if you’re around.
If you’re in Baton Rouge this weekend, I’ll be signing books at the Author’s Row event at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, Bluebonnet Branch. Saturday, 10:00 – 2:00.