For years, she lived out in the Adirondacks, hunting for food. Lately, the playful Frieda has emerged, and she loves her read squeaky toy, which she dug up out of the ground in the back. Mischief in those eyes. Tomorrow, to Washington D.C. for interviews, then to Virginia Wednesday to appear with Rita Mae Brown at Borders in Bailey’s Crossing, Va.

We are going to the Red Fox in Glens Falls Friday night (the Crandall Library) and then to the Halfmoon Library in Clifton Park on Saturday and after that, we storm Columbus Ohio, holding our renegade reading at the Book Loft in German Village at 2 p.m. Sunday. Facebook got us there, I have to say. We’re doing the talk in the courtyard of the Book Loft, a famous independent store, and the weather is supposed to be perfect. I am doing a series of guerrilla readings along the tour route.