Hey. Welcome. In the days and weeks to come, this space will be filled with lots of stuff…almost none of which will have anything to do with trying to sell you books. That stuff’s on all the other pages – the links to Amazon and Barnes & Noble, the Q & As, the audio excerpts, yada yada yada – so on this page, we can take a break, and chat. Let’s chat. (That was my Hillary Clinton impression, in case you were wondering. I have my strategically-employed “Midwestern twang” down cold.)

In a few days, I’ll be posting something so important, so completely central to the lives of millions, that I urge you to keep checking back until it’s up. Yes, it’s my “PVM Top Ten Movies of 2006.” You laugh, but I spent something like 400 hours in movie theatres last year – my final movie count was 186, which is either impressive, or really, really sad – just so I could bring you a list that does not pretend to be all high-brow. No Pan’s Labyrinth on this bad boy. No Babel. (Well, plenty of “babble,” but no Babel.) Those were perfectly swell movies, but they don’t make the PVM list. So just sit tight.

After that, I’m going to explain to you why you – and your teen children – absolutely gotta, hafta see the new Broadway show Spring Awakening, though preferably not together. (It’s got lots of bad language and some simulated sex…and still I’ll argue that every 15-year-old in the country ought to see it.)

Oh, and I’ll tell you stories from the road…all the fun stuff that happens during an author tour and at bookstore readings, etc.

Finally, I’ll be announcing my creation of an exploratory committee, as a first step toward running for President in 2008. Watch for my video announcement, coming just as soon as they can figure out how to clean up my language…

See you soon!