Abe and me--paperback writer

Good news on my personal writing front. Lincoln the Lawyer just became available in paperback this week--my first paperback. It actually looks just like the hardback version; the press added a few positive blurbs from the reviews, and mentioned the Barondess Award on the back cover.

At least, I think it's good news. I get a slightly smaller percentage of each sale, but hopefully the increase in volume will make up the difference. I don't know about the rest of you folks, but I make the vast majority of my book purchases in paperback form. Harbacks are just too darned expensive most of the time.

I was also able to correct a couple of minor errors in the hardback edition. Ward Hill Lamon came to Illinois in 1847, not 1837, as I wrote in the hardback. A distant relative of Lamon pointed this out to me at a book signing, believe it or not.