Pete Hautman's Website
Hey! When did authors go from being faceless loners to indefatigable self-promoting public figures with state-of-the-art websites, publicists, booking agents, multi-media presentations, blogs, billboards, and (coming soon, no doubt) skywriting? Maybe it all started with Mark Twain, but things have gotten a lot more intense in recent years, and this may well be the source of Pete's identity crisis. Anyway, he's trying to keep up.
Spring came early to Minnesota this year. People were picking morel mushrooms in mid-April, two to three weeks ahead of schedule. I had to mow the lawn on April 19th, and now it is May 5, and the lilacs are already fading, and snow is in the forecast for this weekend. Minnesota...
Book News:
Blank Confession will be coming out in November. A kid walks into a police station and confesses to killing someone. Think of it as a modern day Western, with motorcycles instead of horses.
In January, Scholastic will publish The Big Crunch, a love story in which nothing happens. Mary tells me I have to stop describing it that way. Usually, I listen to her.
My much-anticipated (by me, at least) SF trilogy, The Klathu Diskos, has been picked-up by Candlewick Press! Pub date for the first book is 2012.
And, this September,Sweetblood is being reissued with a snazzy new cover.
For current news and other ways to kill time on the web, check out my blog.
—May 5, 2010