Shot on location in Reggio Calabria by Michael Frierson, film professor at UNC-Greensboro.

I am happy to say that I’ll be on UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch program with host D.G. Martin on July 10 and July 12 at 5 p.m. The weekly series of author interviews starts its new season on July 5. Details are here. Hope you can tune in. 

A lovely endorsement from blogger Mary DeTerris Poust is here, second item. An excerpt: “It is a wonderful book that will make you want to get on the next plane to Italy to find your long lost relatives.”

Released today, by Harper Perennial. Available here. Take a look inside here.

Ok, I’m just a little excited. The paperback version of My Cousin the Saint comes out tomorrow, and I just got a little help from a wonderful American blogger in Calabria in getting the word out — Michelle Fabio, author of the popular Web site bleeding espresso. I was really happy to be able to excerpt her online review of my book in the paperback. Her post is here.