It’s on the way.

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Bobby’s Back is on the way to the agent.

Before I go any further I want to thank a bunch of people. First, Tom at Fedex/Kinko’s who neatly bound my work this morning at their store on South Robert Street. An engaging and nice man to work with on my project. Great customer service.

It's on the way to an agent.

Second thing – I am so lucky to have my friends.

I have been blessed with the greatest bunch of friends around. I handed my book to 7 people for review work. I got back 5 of the copies with copious notes, thoughts, corrected typos, suggestions, questions, and jibes. And all of it was glazed with love. These people took time out of their busy lives to help me with my book. I had wonderful advice on every aspect of the work from a rich and colorful group of people. Doug, Frank, Carol, Brian, Mary, HT, Tracy – thank you all for your contributions. Your help has made for a much better book. Continue reading →

It’s the middle of the night and Amy Grant is playing.

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While Amy sings, I work on the novel. Got the last of the critique copies back today and have to incorporate the information into the revised book.

It’s going well, over half-way done with the final read for “Oh, NO! How did I write that down?” kinds of stupidity. It’s amazing what makes sense when you write it down but somehow becomes pointless, tepid dreck when you read it.

So, done with this tomorrow some time. Right now, back to page 279.

I may not be getting smarter, but I am more organized

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Doing the prep work to get the taxes to my accountant (that sounds more important than “the guy who knows how to keep me out of jail and bails me out every year”).

Between web pages, annual summaries from pharmacies and health insurance companies and keeping a detailed set of spreadsheets throughout the year it actually gets easier every year to do this task.

Thank you, God, for computers. This would be a nightmare if it was all paper all the time.