Kate Cary's Blog

A medicine cat would be reading signs into the great cloud of ash and pumice that’s stopped all air flights to the UK this past week. Well, it would if it could see it. There’s actually no physical sign of it; in fact we’ve have the sunniest weekend of the year. Great blue skies and clear warm breezes. But it’s up there somewhere as these meteorological maps show. My brother is stuck in Bangkok, unable to fly home, and my neighbour’s son is stranded in Dubai. And the shops are running out of fresh mangoes.

I’ve been enjoying a quiet few weeks closer to home with Josh. But he’s back to school today and I’m back at work, but I thought I’d stop by to say hello before I started writing for the day.

Vicky’s been emailing me from her tour in the US (gosh, I hope the cloud has cleared by the time she’s ready to fly home!) She’s having great fun. She loves meeting fans because most of the time she’s stuck in her office thinking up brilliant plots so it’s wonderful to get out there and see so many happy smiley faces.

Here she is in Houston. I love her BIG smile!

Hi BlogClan

Random picture because it’s cute… (even though it’s a dog)

Vicky published her tours and dates on facebook this morning. I thought I’d share them in case you’re not a facebooker…

Monday, April 12th 7:00 pm
Reading/Q&A/Signing event with Little Shop of Stories
Decatur Recreation Center
231 Sycamore Street
Decatur, GA 30030

Tuesday, April 13th 5:00 pm
Reading/Q&A/Signing event at Lemuria Books
202 Banner Hall
4465 I-55 North
Jackson, MS 39206

Wednesday, April 14th 4:00 pm
Reading/Q&A/Signing event at Square Books
129 Courthouse Square
Oxford, MS 38655

Thursday, April 15th 6:00 pm
Reading/Q&A/Signing event at BookPeople
603 North Lamar Blvd
Austin, TX 78703

Friday, April 16th 5:00 pm
Reading/Q&A/Signing event with Blue Willow
Spring Forest Middle School
14240 Memorial Drive
Houston, TX 77079

Saturday, April 17th 2:00 pm
Reading/Q&A/Signing event with Barnes & Noble #2200
1201 Lake Woodlands Dr
The Woodlands, TX 77381

Sunday, April 18th TBD
Reading/Q&A/Signing event with Bookworks
off-site location TBD

Tuesday, April 20th 7:00 pm
Reading/Q&A/Signing event with Changing Hands
possibly off-site, location TBD

Wednesday, April 21st 7:00 pm
In-store event with Barnes & Noble #2753
7881 Edinger Avenue
Huntington Beach, CA 92647

Thursday, April 22nd 7:00 pm
Reading/Q&A/Signing event with Borders Northridge
9301 Tampa Ave.
Northridge, CA 91324

Friday, April 23rd 7:00 pm
Reading/Q&A/Signing event with Copperfield’s Santa Rosa
Monterey Village
2316 Montgomery Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95405

Saturday, April 24th 2:00 pm
Reading/Q&A/Signing event with Books Inc.
Capuchino High School Auditorium
1501 Magnolia Ave.
San Bruno, CA 94066

Vicky just published this on her facebook fan page…

“Hello! I mentioned this just now waayyyyy waayyyyy below in a comment to someone’s question, but I figure I’d better put it here as well. Brace yourself for an EXCLUSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT! You heard it here first! My next US tour will be in April 2010, and I’ll be visiting the following cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix AZ, Albuquerque NM, Austin TX, Houston TX, Oxford/Jackson MS and Atlanta GA. Yippee! Should be some sunshine there! Please don’t get cross if I’m not visiting your home town on this trip. There’ll be plenty more tours (I hope), so I’ll get there one day! There are no other details yet, but I promise I’ll post them when I have them. Hope I can see some of you! Vicky x”