Donna Andrews

An update on those translated titles

Julie Dalyrimple emailed me with a comment on the German titles.  She says:

"Alle vogel sind schon tot" I think is a play on a line from a spring song I learned in German class in high school, "Alle Vogel sind schon da" (All the birds are already there). I hope the book turns out as  funny in German as it is in English.

In other words, the German title is a pun!  Okay, I can get that.  I suspect Falscher Vogel fängt den Tod will turn out to be another pun.

And in answer to Liz Clifford--yes, I collect the foreign editions of my books.  In fact, I have a shelf in one corner of my office where I keep all the editions I can get my paws on--hardback, paperback, large type, foreign, and audio.  The photo at the top of the blog shows what it looks like at the moment--including the armed action figures I keep around to guard it.

What I've been up to

Blogging about author spam over on the Sisters in Crime blog. (Kris Neri also has some incisive thoughts on spam over at the Femmes Fatales blog--where my latest contribution was a confession on what happens when writers screw up. (At left: weather over Yorktown.)