Four months until publication date and already many things are happening: the first appearances scheduled, wonderful blurbs from nine other novelists, an excellent Publishers' Weekly review. All very exciting. My novel which I wrote with so much passion, often huddled in pajamas in my little writing corner of my NYC apartment, is slowly beginning to make its way into the world, thanks to my editor and her colleagues, my agent, my family, and my many supportive friends...and the divine, complicated spirit of Claude Monet!