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Shock Point and other books by April Henry are available via the following vendors or your favorite local independent bookseller.
Independent Mystery Booksellers Association
home > fun stuff > writer's life > another tale from the writing life04/01
ANOTHER TALE FROM THE WRITING LIFEHeart-Shaped Box
My latest mystery is in its third printing in hard cover. That's the best I've ever done.Kiplinger's
Check out the May issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine (on newsstands now). I'm featured on the inside back cover, not because I have my financial house in order, but because it's part of a series they do on people who have made dreams come true. The make-up artist spent over one hour, but when I looked in the mirror later I looked just like me—only a quarter-inch closer to the mirror due to several coats.
Web PageThanks to my sister-in-law, I've got a Web page now, AprilHenryMysteries.com. AprilHenry.com was taken, so this was the next best thing. I get like 200-300 visitors a week, many from different countries. I've also heard from my old college roommate, the guy who used to be the boy next door and my 92-year-old former third grade teacher.
Tour
It snowed four inches in Seattle, it rained buckets in LA (which made the escort so nervous that he suggested we just hide inside a Starbucks and wait for the rain to blow over. He said, “People just don't know how to drive in this weather!” He sounded like Portlanders do about snow.) It even rained in Phoenix. Despite this, I had a great time on tour.Weirdest question I got asked: a woman wanted me to compare and contrast my main character with Allie McBeal.
One escort I had had just gotten done assisting WWF star Chyna, a big, muscular woman who has “written” a book. She was doing signings in Target stores that drew 800 people at a time and required eight body guards. The escort said that the previous day she and Chyna had lunch with some nice boys from a band with a really strange name. It took her a while to remember what it was. Oh, yes. 'N Sync.
Movie Interest
The book scout for Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment really liked my latest book (not yet published), a thriller, but it's been long enough I'm beginning to think nothing will happen with them. Hollywood is still awaiting the actors' as well as the writers' strike and is not doing much at all right now.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
