Greetings friends and neighbors and fans of Lambert Van Poole from across the globe. My first book, “One Fiddle Too Many” is selling very well. In fact I have stayed so busy keeping up with things that I have been neglecting my duties of regularly updating content here.

One set of enthusiastic Van-Poolians, as they call themselves, have been after me to publicize my schedule of book-signings.  I really had wanted to keep them quiet and hope nobody showed up, because I am running very low on ink. Not in my printer, but in my fountain pen. Call me eccentric, call me old-fashioned (or mix me an old-fashioned), but I use a fountain pen. Not a cartridge pen, a fountain pen. The kind with the lever on the side of the barrel, and you stick the nib into a bottle of ink to fill the barrel. Anyway, I am perilously low on ink. To avoid running out entirely, I was secretly hoping that no one would come my book signings and it would not be an issue. But one adoring fan sent me a bottle of blue ink so I am now back in business and can sign several thousand copies if called upon to do so.

I am however, running perilously low on actual books. (This part is not a joke!) There are signed copies available for sale at the following locations:

• Chamblin’s Bookmine -Roosevelt Boulevard
• Chamblin’s Uptown – 215 Laura St.
• Lenny’s Custom Jewelry – Avondale Shopping Center
• The Violin Shoppe – Beach & Southside Boulevard
• The Jacksonville Historic Society, 317 A.Philip Randolph Boulevard

Come by and visit at any of these events. Copies of the book will be available for sale at all of these, depending on availability. If you have bought a copy through amazon.com, bring it by and I will be happy to sign it for you. If you have bought a copy from one of the local outlets that is already signed, bring it by and I will personalize it for you.

I hope everyone is enjoying “One Fiddle Too Many.” I should have the second Lambert Van Poole mystery out by the end of this year. Working title is “A Test of Wills.”