Some ‘Beastly’ News

The newest arrval in my office (see below)

A few months remain before the publication of my next book, In the Garden of Beasts, but already a lot of nice things have happened:

–Publishers in France, Britain, Australia/New Zealand, Sweden, The Netherlands, and Poland have acquired rights to publish the book in their countries;

–The Chautauqua Institution has chosen In the Garden of Beasts to be one of the books featured in its Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle for this summer, a huge honor;

—Vanity Fair has dispatched a photographer to “shoot” yours truly for the magazine. 

 –Y.T. has also been invited to be the night’s speaker at the University of Washington Friends of the Library 2010 Literary Voices banquet, and at the annual fundraising event of the Library Foundation of Hillsboro, Oregon. For details on these and other upcoming events in Dallas, Chicago, Philadelphia, and elsewhere, please pay a visit to my Events page.

But the really big and rather unsettling news in my office is the arrival of a wind-up Triceratops pencil sharpener. Not surprisingly, tensions have arisen. Nunzilla, who thus far has dominated my window sill, is FURIOUS and has vowed that sparks will fly. Severed-head Ken is placid as always. The Triceratops is taking it all in its spring-wound stride. More later, I’m sure…

Clearly tensions are brewing