Dance of the Bones in Paperback

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A long ago governor of Arizona, John Richard ‘Jack’ Williams, went on the air with a morning radio program after he left office.  The show came on just as I was leaving to walk to Greenway School, and here are the opening lines. “It’s another beautiful day in Arizona. Leave us all enjoy it.”

Today it’s a beautiful spring day in Washington. I’m sitting on our back porch. Bella is fast asleep with her long little doxie body, cuddled next to my thigh. Jojo’s long little body is across my shoulders, like a doxie neck wrap. Using my new prescription glasses, I’m looking down into the garden, past a pair of lush hanging baskets, past the curtain of hanging wisteria blossoms, and down to the fast flowing water in the fishpond. Dappled sunlight is leaking through the fronds on the palm trees.  It’s lovely, and leave us all enjoy it.

By the time you read this blog-newsletter, however, I’ll be off on a Silverseas Cruise—with very limited internet access, by the way.  So when you get this, even though you might want to reply instantly, you might want to hold off on that because I may not be able to read and respond to same.

Dance of the Bones

Dance of the Bones

This is a newsletter after all, and I want you to be aware that the paperback edition of Dance of the Bones goes on sale May 31. The Beaumont novella, Stand Down, is also in this paperback edition.

For those of you who are paperback readers, it’s finally your turn.  There’ll be a new novella, Random Acts, in July, in both e-book and paperback formats, and a new Joanna book, Downfall, in September.  So yes, I’m still working—but not while I’m cruising.  And we wouldn’t be off on a cruise if it weren’t for all of my readers—hardback, paperback, and e-book readers!

So thank you very much.

See you later!

JAJ

4 thoughts on “Dance of the Bones in Paperback”

  1. I miss the term “dead tree reader” it’s not offensive its orginal . I just finished clawback, I’m so excited for the next Joanna book! How sneaky of you! Enjoy your well deserved vaycay .??

  2. I don’t really like the term “dead tree” for a paper edition of a book because paper is made up of more things than wood from trees. Of course, “old rags” and whatever else goes into paper isn’t much better.

    I’ve recently re-read Beau’s Alaskan cruise adventure “Birds of Prey”. I hope your time on the water isn’t quite that exciting. Have a wonderful time.

  4. I absolutely loved “Dance of the Bones.” I was surprised when suddenly I was hearing JP Beaumont’s voice in the middle of chapter 5. It wasn’t until chapter 10 when I heard him speak again that I realized the insertion of Beaumont into the story wasn’t a misprint. I loved the interweave of Tohono O’odham folktales with each chapter. The description of the food made me want to buy a Tohono O’odham cookbook.

    Met JA Jance in Burlingame, California at a bookstore in 2007. Hope to see her again when she comes back to Mesa or Sun Lakes, Arizona.

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