ANOTHER WEEK CLOSER TO.....

Well, it just amazes me how quickly time flies. Seems like I wrote the last post last night...and it's been a week. Damn! Sadly, like most everyone else out there, I don't have much to report or show for the past week. Wrote a couple thousand words or so on an interactive novel I began for last semester's bookbinding class. The book's called A DARK NIGHT AT SALLEE'S and is set in a department store afterhours. It features my perennial detective Frank Powell. Powell is one of Chicago's finest detectives and he's appeared in several as-yet unpublished novels and a few short stories. We have a cast of characters being interviewed about the death of Cynthia Romirez, the wife of one of Chicago's biggest crimelords. When Romirez himself shows up, the plot thickens. You'll be able to choose which chapter to read next and there will be several alternate endings to the book. It's an interesting project and requires a lot of plot twists. I encourage every writer out there to try it...it's a challenge.

Also, I've been working on the murder novel set at PK's on the Carbondale strip as well. It's coming along slowly.

I plan on finishing up the printing of TALES FROM THE CELLAR tomorrow, with any luck.

I also plan on doing the final edits of Larry Santoro's JUST NORTH OF NOWHERE this weekend. And, dammit, I'm going to get those hardcovers to Wayne Allen Sallee's FIENDS BY TORCHLIGHT done sometime soon....I promise!

Till then, gentle reader, as long-departed Bob Casper (God rest his soul) was prone to say: "Take it easy every chance you get."

later
Roger