… that this isn’t just a blog, but a whole web site? Click anywhere up in the banner above and you’ll be shuffled off to the Hank Stuever home page. That’s by design. There ye shall find ALL the book tour information you’ll need; you can take my Christmas shopping survey (please!); you can look…

My interview with Metro Weekly comes out today (Thursday), and Good Lord, I’m on the cover. I look like a Christmas burrito! (Hey, New Mexico people: I’m red and green. And delish.) There’s also a really good, long Q&A interview by Sean Bugg. Reading it, I’m amazed at how much I told Sean (he’s that…

Entertainment Weekly reviews Tinsel in the new issue. The review is pretty good — I got a B. Which is right in line with my lifetime GPA, so I’m just going to have to own it, what with my “meandering snark” and all. (On the last book they gave me an A. Remember? “A master…

Metro Weekly wrapped me up real good for their cover this week. (It comes out Thursday.) Todd Franson did a great job and we had lots of fun. Finally, after, oh, five gazillion shots, I got to bust out!

That’s J.C. Penney’s slogan to get the retail season started — which, if you ask me, sort suuu-hucks. Nothing backfires in the fraught territory of gift-giving like the word Scrooge. This slogan, to me, says This year, be as cheap as you can. The Plano-based company has had some crappy quarters for the last year…

Off Ramp gets a reprieve! For now, at least. After I blogged about getting the notice that Picador, the publisher of the paperback edition of Off Ramp, was no longer going to keep the book in print, they’ve decided to hold off. They didn’t know about Tinsel (different publisher), so they’d like to see if…

Tinsel has made it onto New York magazine’s weekly “Approval Matrix,” in the Nov. 9 issue. If you’ve never seen one of these, well, 1.) where have you been? and 2.) it works like this: Four quadrants on a grid, ranking current popular culture (movies, books, TV, music, people, events) by their brilliance, despicable-ness, and…

No one’s more surprised than I am at the play Tinsel got in Sunday’s Dallas Morning News. Above the fold on page 1A of the print edition, with an article by Jessica Meyers — with a nice picture of Caroll and Marissa on the inside jump page. Jessica and I met for the interview in…

Thanks, everyone, who sent pictures of Tinsel in stores. I got pics from all over, and we have two first-place winners, and second and third place winner. The first-place winners get a signed book and a gift card to the bookstore of their choice. The other two get a book. And there are honorable mentions,…