Archive for December 5th, 2009

I’m getting lots of packages these days. My parents are having things sent here — since they haven’t had a fixed address for some months now. My husband keeps ordered gadgets. (I am the beneficiary of some of these; spanking new inner workings for my computer, for example.) But, alas no copy of Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature. I am left to other book duties: I am writing a script for a video trailer and drafting a marketing plan.

This purple pansy did not make the book. … I may be running out of outtakes. I broke down and asked my editor whether Growing Patterns would be coming soon. He’s looking into it.

Sorry I missed posting yesterday. No copy of Growing Patterns came, but I did get a very nice note from my young reader friend, Jackson S. He and I had lunch in October when I went to the Mississippi Library Association conference. In the note, he thanked me for showing him my draft copy (which I had printed on my home printer and stapled together). It is fun to have readers anticipating this book’s release. Last time around, it was just me and a close circle of friends.

The flower in the above picture is a spiderwort. A photograph of a spiderwort does appear in the book to illustrate Fibonacci number 3, but it was shot from the top and with only one flower visible.

It snowed here last night so we woke up to a white landscape.