A Sunny Day in Coal-Cracker Country

I've been neglecting my blogging practice, I'm afraid. Put it down to the chores of making a living and trying to market a first novel. I know, I know. Excuses, excuses, excuses.... Anyway, speaking of marketing a first novel, Eve and I took a very pleasant little sun-drenched book tour through the Pennsylvania anthracite country this afternoon. We made stops in Lansford, at the No. 9 Mine and Museum, Jim Thorpe (Old Mauch Chunk), and Eckley Miners' Village near Hazleton. I hawked the book with all my might, and confirmed a reading and book-signing date in Eckley on Sunday May 4. If you're in the neighborhood, you'd be most welcome to sit in. With the advent of daylight saving time and a brilliant, breezy afternoon, we came home happy to have put a perfect capstone on the weekend.