If I ever doubted the gurus who keep telling us that the new media changes everything – I have been convinced. Hit over the head more like. In a good way. As in: I finally get it.

Just checked the Amazon customer reviews for City of Promise, the published-last-week and last-for-the-moment of the NYC books I’ve spent over a decade doing for Simon & Schuster. Terrific reviews and I am enormously grateful. Especially to a very savvy lady who gave the book five stars, has insightful comments to make about the characters, promises to read everything I write, and finishes up by commenting that she seriously disagrees with my politics.

Wow! Not because she disagrees. Half the country disagrees with the other half. I will go to the mat fighting for her right to disagree and I’d like to think she’d do the same. The comment was a stunner because nowhere in City of Promise is there a single word about contemporary politics or my view of same.

But on my Facebook profile my politics sticks out a mile. I started that page years ago on the urging of I think my daughter-in-law. A way to keep up with family and friends… It never occurred to me that in our brave new world professional and personal are all mixed up. Which I guess makes me pretty foolish.

I’m happy to be disabused and I love you “insatiable reader.” Not just because you say great things about my books – though I’m really, really happy about that – but because like me, you care about our politics. And we’re all better off when that’s true. Thank you.

Next stop, London. Will try and blog from there…