I just found out that MY BOOK is officially published, and will go on sale on Saturday at the American Library Association conference in Chicago.

Whoooo-whooooo!

Writing a book, even with the generous help and support of 3 co-authors, and a wonderful spouse, is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I’m sure that part of that is because I wrote on a densely academic legal topic, privacy issues facing libraries. And I was SO NERVOUS about getting something in the book wrong. Librarians, library boards, local governments — all may depend on this book as they plan and update privacy, information collection, record storage, etc policies. And I’m the lawyer — I’m the one who said "this is what the rules say" in the book. Not to disparage my amazing co-authors. I’m sure they worked hard to get everything right too. But reasonable librarians may differ, more so I think, than a lawyer telling them what the rules are.

If I write another book, like the Internet safety books for kids that I’m thinking about, I think it’ll be more fun and less stressful.

If it isn’t, Jill probably won’t let me write a third book.   I did things like kick her out of the house for entire weekends — thankfully, Mikki was living at the beach at the time, so Jill could go visit. And I procrastinated horribly!!! Which just made me crankier, so I don’t recommend it.

And I should be getting a copy of the book any day now!!!!!!!!