I have a new book out! MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HITMEN: And Other Bombay Family Bedtime Stories is out today. It's the second collection of short stories, written by my favorite character - Gin Bombay - about some of their assassination gigs through history.

I'll admit it - I'm a history nerd. My daughter rolls her eyes whenever I get excited about what she's studying in history. "Oh! You're doing the Great Depression! I love the Great Depression!" I say (wondering who really loves the Great Depression) as I drop tons of books from my bookshelves in front of her and bore her to death with stories about the WPA. Yes, I'm that kind of parent. I won't even tell you how obnoxious I was when they were studying the Suffrage Movement.

So getting a chance to write short stories about famous Bombay hits through history was a nice break from harassing my family about history.

Does that make sense?

Maybe it's just me. I don't know. But there's something about history that is so fascinating - how people dressed, what they ate, how they struggled or partied or whatever.

So I wrote HEROES and the book preceding it, SNUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON. I think I'll probably write more in the future - it's too much fun imagining my Bombays involved in the assassination of Rasputin or Sigurd the Mighty.

Besides - that's what my imagination is for.

Right?