NEWS AND UPDATES

First the UPDATES:

If you're one of those who checks out the Journal page but hasn't been around the rest of the site, you may have missed it, but www.petercashwell.com has recently undergone some long-overdue renovation.

The kind, talented, and reasonably-priced folks at quietspace.com have once again done the dirty work of taking my vague indications and turning them into cool-looking webstuff, and you can see their efforts by visiting the other pages here.

In About Peter Cashwell, you'll see some different excerpts from my life list. I've also updated my biography slightly.

In The Verb To Bird, you can see the book's cover at last; this is the Now-Official cover, featuring Grant Silverstein's illustration of a Yellow-shafted Flicker against a field of bold green. On the same page, you can also read the revised and Now-Official version of my first sighting of the Pythagorean Prothonotary Warbler.

In Resources/Bibliography, my Recent Reads have been updated, proving that yes, I do read more or less continuously.

Now the NEWS:

Along with my new best friend, Will from PDB, I'm currently putting together what I hope will be a busy schedule of readings and signings for this spring and summer. I'll post that schedule once I have some idea what it might actually be, but I thought I'd report the first date I've been able to set up:

I'll be appearing at the Virginia Festival of the Book on March 19th, 2003, in Charlottesville, VA.

I don't yet know whether I'll be doing a reading, a panel discussion, or a combination thereof, nor do I know the venue or time; I'm just psyched to be participating, since I've greatly enjoyed the Festivals I've been to in the past. (The Gordon Ave. Branch Library Book Sale is an unofficial but not-to-be-missed part of the Festival, too.) If you're interested and in the neighborhood, swing by.

This also means that the book should (knock wood) be available for sale by March 19th--at the very least, PDB and I will be doing everything we can to make that happen.

Suddenly March is looking like a busy time... maybe almost as busy as January is turning out to be...
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