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I can’t believe it is nearly 11:30 at night. The day has been incredibly busy. Good, but busy. I’ve had appointments and phone calls all day that have kept me from my desk until now.
Why am I writing this instead of following my husband up to bed and getting some well deserved sleep? Because today was the release of the Anita Blake hardback of the comics. At your local comic store and at your local bookstore the first six comic books of the Guilty Pleasures adaption is finally collected in one place at one time, and it’s on the shelves. The hardback contains not only the complete first six issues, but a bonus short story. A brand new Anita adventure which was the first thing Jon and I collaborated on. It’s probably the shortest Anita story I will ever write, and definitely the shortest mystery. I’d begun to wonder if I’d lost the knack of writing short. Every writer has a size that their muse likes best. I am thankful that my muse and I like novels, because it’s a whole lot easier to make a living at novel length than short stories. But comics seem to hit a different spot for me than short stories. I like the art form. I like the collaboration between words and art. I ken it, a good old Scottish term.
I couldn’t go up to bed without remarking this milestone of the first hardback from Marvel, DB Pro, and us. May it be the first of many.