It seems like only yesterday -- okay, maybe 3,653 yesterdays -- that my first hardcover novel hit the stands. I have lots of memories from back then, but one thing stands out. I'd brazenly asked Chris Crutcher, by way of Kelly Milner Halls, to consider giving the book a blurb. He was kind enough to do that. In his repsonse to my thank-you note, he said, "This one will be around for a while." That's one of the nicest, and scariest, things an author can hear. I had my hopes. But, coming from spending many years in the game industry, where a five-year-old title is relegated to garage sales and pawn shops, I didn't dare think in terms of decades. Much to my amazement, it's still on the shelves, still on summer reading lists, and still finding lots of new fans. What can I say? It feels good. If you haven't read it, you can check out the first chapter here. I don't have any big plans to mark the occasion, but I might do a couple more posts about the book throughout this month.