End of a long dry spell?

Not really. Just a note to say hello to those who remember that this blog is still out here. Seems like I forgot it too. (Ha! You should be so lucky.)

Meanwhile, I'll be talking to members of the Panama City Writers Association tonight at the St. Andrews Civic Club, 6:30 p.m., reading a few columns from the book, and answering lots of questions, I'm sure. I've spoken to the club before, in my capacity as the features editor for The News Herald. They're a sharp group of folks. I'll be selling books as well. I think I'll probably sell out of the last box we have here at the office, which I hope will mean that Nicole will order more.

No news on the Welcome to the Dawning of a New Century front, however. I've recently sent a revised copy to River Jordan, she who travels to cities of sin and meets Mitch Albom (a story she has yet to relate on her blog), though she dropped the name in a phone conversation. But the writing continues.

I'm deep in a revision of my lifetime project, Caliban, which is a Southern-occult-Christian-police-thriller-ghost-multigenerational-whatever of a novel. Lynn and Carole have read a version of it that was a nonlinear mess. This version has learned from earlier mistakes and ten years of growth as a writer (and human being). And I've started a new project that's super-secret. And I've written a script for a short film that Nathan's going to star in and we're going to shoot on Spring Break, edit this summer, burn onto DVD and enter into fall film festivals. And in between, there's been 40-plus hours of work each and every week.

So, totally not sitting around doing nothing. It's a busy time.
Peace.