The miracle of a deadline

If you have followed my blog, you probably have seen this black banner I occasionally have flashed this year in moments of shameless self-promotion.

As the first day of autumn and the beginning of the fourth quarter began to approach, I started to sweat a little. I have made no secret of the fact that the banner is a tease for a book I have titled Jeep Thompson and the Lost Prince of Venus, and I have been plunking away at the story — my first novel in (ulp!) nine years — for quite some ...