Did You Ever See Allegro? Is back from my editor, and
what I thought would be the equivalent of painting a couple of rooms has turned
into restoration after a major fire. She’s absolutely right, I’ve got to add a
lot of information, and at the same time make the whole book shorter. I had
been shooting for 95.000 words, hit 107,000, and I’m up another thousand with
added material in the first ten pages. Three hundred pages to go. This will
take a while.
In other news, I have three other projects:
Story of the lifelong friendship between two men, beginning
when they meet in kindergarten in 1953. Their lives are displayed through the
Cold War, stagflation, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Millennium, the
Internet up to today. Gray and Ralph remain the best of friends, although their
lives are shaped differently by events and choices. Working title: The Greatest
of These.
Medical mystery starring late sixties podiatrist Fran and equally
aged dental surgeon Elvis. They accompany an even older internist on a medical
mission to Africa and perform as general surgeons, hundreds of miles from the
nearest hospitals in emergency conditions. The duo uncovers a sinister plot to
weaponize a naturally-occurring substance in the human body. No working title.
First book of a new series on the Frankenbuzz Detective
Agency. Two young men, one a mechanical prodigy, the other a survivalist, join
forces to investigate stuffs and mysteries and crimes. Oh my. A good time will
be had by all.
