I forgot to perform a happy dance here when I discovered that one of my favorite authors, Dick Francis, came out of retirement to write another book.

I promptly bought it for my husband for his birthday. Yip!

Julie

I didn't realize he'd retired.

I didn't think writers could retire. Don't they all say that they write because they have to?

From what I read, his wife was his co-writer and she died, so he was retiring. I don't know if it was an official "I'm done!" announcement, though.

I'm just so happy I get the chance to read another book. He's not a young man.

Julie

My husband is delighted with the book gift, though he hasn't read it yet.

And I am less than delighted with the book spammer, though I haven't tracked him down and smothered him with paperbacks, yet. Yet.

Julie

I have to back to reading his books one of these days...I read three of them and loved them, it's just so easy to get sidetracked trying to follow all the really good authors! (well, for me anyway, as I have yet to read the complete works of just about any author...except Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe, it's going to take a while to get into the late 1900s and early 2000s)

"I didn't think writers could retire. Don't they all say that they write because they have to?"

That's what I was about to say.