TRUE STORY—I was absently perusing Twitter while composing a highly complementary post about the Court Street Coffee Shop in Seguin and how it’s maybe just as good as BIRD Bakery in San Antonio, and a Tweet from Armie Hammer popped up. He’s an actor. Recently nominated for an Academy Award.

Armie Hammer’s wife owns BIRD Bakery. I think he does, too.

I follow Armie Hammer on Twitter, he does not follow me back. I was surprised by the coincidence of me thinking about his business and having his Tweet pop up at the same time and tempted to send him a Tweet saying so.

Didn’t.

Should have.

He probably doesn’t read them.

But back to my original idea—the scones I ate at Court Street Coffee Shop in Seguin and the muffins (ditto) and the cucumber sandwich and the hummus and fruit and cucumber and bread tray…all just as good as BIRD Bakery. Court Street just doesn’t have the scrumptious cupcakes and cakes that BIRD does. Or the décor.

We often stop and eat at BIRD Bakery when we are in San Antonio. It is always a pleasant and tasty experience. Everyone’s nice. I guess the only drawback is sometimes there aren’t enough parking spots. But we’re going to make an effort to eat at Court Street too from now on. Some of the time. Maybe every other trip. Check it out. And while you’re at it, check out BIRD Bakery. There’s also one in Dallas.

Photo is from my recent book signing in Sequin at said Court Street Coffee Shop. Wonder if we could ever talk BIRD Bakery into hosting one. They’ve already got a special room set aside.

Totally will never happen.

Thank you, Court Street Coffee Shop. The book signing was actually fun. We made new friends and sold some copies of BROWN, a mystery novel by G.L. Rix (that’s my pseudonym for this sort of mystery). We will be back.

You can get my new mystery novel BROWN at Book People in Austin, or you can come down to Seguin next Thursday evening and meet us at the Court Street Coffee Shop (great menu) from 6 to 8 where we will be signing BROWN, a mystery novel for those who are interested. Answering questions. Posing for pictures (I sort of hope not), and making new friends. If you prefer children’s books, Judy Ann Lowe will be there too.

I’ve been on a reading jag for several months now. Often reading two books at once. Usually one on my Kindle and one physical book out of my personal library down a couple of rooms from my bedroom. Decided this week to get back on a TV series watching jag as well. Usually don’t do the two together, books and movies both. I’m starting back with the middle of season three of 24 which is where I stopped about a month or two ago. Today I watched Jaws and North By Northwest.

There are so many books to read and re-read, and so many fantastic series and movies to re-watch, I may not live long enough to experience them all again. But I’m going to do my best (And here I’m going to use a famous cliché–Or die trying, she says.)

Then there is plain old living to do. Washing the car, cleaning house, taking out the trash, eating, sleeping, taking care of the pets. All that.

But what about the writing? Why hasn’t she talked about the writing?

Well, we’ve been to two fantastic comic cons this month. The Greater Austin Comic Con in Cedar Park, and the Corpus Christi Comic Con in , you guessed it, Corpus Christi. While my books didn’t sell like hotcakes (and if we’d been selling hotcakes we’d have made a bundle), we sold enough to make us happy. But this still isn’t writing, it’s marketing.

I’m taking a short hiatus. To think about my books. I know what I’m going to do, but I’m pretending otherwise.

I have several series going that need a third book (and in one case a fourth), but only two of them have readers. If I was really smart I’d abandon the rest of them and concentrate on those two, but I’m not going to. I’m going to proceed as I originally planned and write book three in all the series (and book four in the one). The only one I’ll be leaving alone is Arroyo, and who knows, maybe I’ll continue that story by and by.

So, Browner is up first. I’ll get seriously to work on it next week. 

After I’ve watched a few more movies.

You can find my books here https://amazon.com/author/gretchenrix

And for the month of July, ARROYO is on sale at LOGOS off the square in Lockhart. Book People in Austin has BROWN, a mystery novel by G. L. Rix (that’s me!)