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It is so hot, here in Virginia. Feel like I am working probably harder than I am with sweat dripping onto the keyboard.

I have been on a journey.It started in Chicago, where I signed some books and did a workshop at the Printers Row Literary Festival. It was great fun. I rolled into the station and asked a stranger to recommend a hotel. They did so - glad I listened. They chose well. Everyone made me very welcome. After this I went to Detroit, racking up my Amtrak points on the way, to stay with my cousin one night, then my aunt and uncle the next. Then flew to Amsterdam, then Edinburgh. I was a judge, for UNICEF's childrens' short story telling competition. I judged the entries from Africa.

On the Mt. Hope road, south of U.S.

I win a meal at the Broadway diner in Waynesboro. Only the very best hots dogs are served here so I make my way there at my earliest opportunity. I am not ready for the Elvis special yet. I plump for the Hawaii - very nice. With chips and a soda. Dined like a king. Maybe I'll see you there, sometime. Then I went and booked a flying lesson. The sky was blue and the air still. Felt like the right thing to do. Finished the day off working on the next book. Set in the Florida Keys. I think it requires some research - Aloha! Oh, sorry. that's Hawaii...

Good day, friends:
 
For those of you living in Canada or with access to Canadian TV on cable, my interview on the History Television channel's Crime Stories series, will be broadcast on Monday, June 21st.
 
Episode is entitled, "The Love Slave Murders," and will be shown twice: 11 a.m, EST, and 3 p.m., EST.
 
Hope you catch it!
 
Best,
 
Barri
 
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Hello, friends and fans:
 
I will be interviewed on the Investigaton Discovery channel's Wicked Attraction series on Wednesday, June 9th.
 
The episode is entitled, "Twisted Twosome," and can be seen at the following times:
 
June 9th at 9 a.m, EST and 2 p.m., EST.
 
Hope you catch it!
 
Best,
 
Barri

The signing at Book Expo America was great. It was packed and everyone wanted books, including mine. Signed away till they were all gone then bade farewell to the Mystery Writers booth and bumped into someone from London. A blast from the past. Good fun. It was sweltering so after a cold drink, I headed back to the hotel. Nice, trendy, credit card land. The next day after more of "it's the computer, I don't know why it's happening, blah, blah...." I'd had enough. Just checked out, left my bags with checked luggage at Amtrak and hit the streets with my guitar.

Packing my stuff ready to go to New York tomorrow, for Book Expo America. Got my books, got my cards, laptop, phone, shoes. I think that's it. I have the radio on listening to the music. It's not very cheery. There seems to be a theme, cheating women, cheating men cheating women and so it goes on in a 4/4 beat. That reminds me, mustn't forget my guitar. I am staying at the Chelsea. Vladimir busks outside. I'll catch up with him and we'll play a bit on the corner. Happy Days!

I make a table from pizza boxes. They have been collected from Friday night basketball at the YMCA in Waynesboro. It sells for $500 at the charity auction night, in aid of the Y. I am in shock. Making some more stuff. Credit card holders, money clips and a trophy which I am going to present to the Y - all from Pizza boxes. Some of the dried in stuff is difficult to remove. I buy some sandpaper. The sales assistant asks me what I am using it for. I explain - she looks at me as though I am from the planet Zog. Get my stuff and books together for my trip to New York for Book Expo America.

Young children from one of the classes I read to, in a school, have written thank-you notes to me for reading to them. Some of them have drawings of me. At least one of them is a veritable likeness.