“Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet’s father’s ghost and what stays is dry bones.”
-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Hello all! Despite the lack of emails the last month or so, things haven’t been quiet regarding Pale Blue Scratch. A week ago I submitted my draft for editing to Jill Domschot, so the weeks leading up to that was full of head-down key-tapping at Starbucks or on my front porch. Western Pennsylvania is in that climatological sweet spot of the year where it hasn’t gotten hot or humid enough outside to be unbearable.
However, this is not a simple status-of-the book email. A sample chapter of Pale Blue Scratch is now up in the spring 2015 edition of Common Oddities – Spring 2015. It’s titled “The Flights at Bridge Zero” and there’s something of a spoiler in it, so be warned. There’s a pdf and an html version on that page, but note that the html bears the incorrect title–another warning!
More to come.