First of all, yes, it IS me. Really. For real. I'm not some fake, pretending to be Torey Hayden. I'm Torey Hayden. And see if you can figure out the 84-years-old thing all by yourself.
..THE SUNFLOWER FOREST is a novel and it was released in the UK at the beginning of December 2008. It will not be available in the US. If US fans would like to read it, please order a book through Amazon UK
I'm grateful to all my new fans here on MySpace and I'm thoroughly enjoying being here. If you want to know more about my books, my background or me, please visit my proper website at: www.torey-hayden.com for lots more information.
While I'm very much enjoying this opportunity to meet fans of my books, please understand that for legal reasons I can't give any advice or help with personal problems, and that I genuinely don't have time to do an honest job of reading your manuscript, critiquing your writing or answering your homework questions, so please don't ask.
Please do not copy stuff from this space, including from the blog. It is copyrighted material and is not posted under a Creative Commons license.
And by the way, if you try to post advertising of any kind on this page, I'll delete you from my Friends list immediately. So please don't.
For anybody out there who is still confused, SILENT BOY is the British re-titling of MURPHY'S BOY. It's the exact same book. My British publisher, HarperCollins UK, felt too many people in Britain wouldn't get the reference to Murphy's Law, which is called Sod's Law in the UK, so they chose to change the title.
And continued bad news if you are waiting for another nonfiction book. I do have one more story I'd like to tell, but I am still caught up in a legal battle over the consent and until that is resolved, I simply can't write it.
However, I am definitely still writing and involved in several different projects. I've just completed a children's picture book with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. I'm currently writing a textbook with Dr. Michael Marlowe of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, USA. This book is aimed at university-level teacher training. There is currently no release date scheduled (because I keep not getting around to finishing it!) I am also teaming up with Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche to do a book aimed mainly at teens and young adults in which we talk about ways of dealing with difficult problems.