Sunday Quote has about six months until book release. Ack.

"The story stays in back of everything else. No matter what I do, the story is always there--waiting and working kind of like a fermenting mash out of which whiskey will be made eventually but meanwhile the mass bubbles and works and makes foam. And it is very interesting but the product that is wished for--devoutly to be wished for--is the whiskey. All the turmoil and boiling is of no interest to anyone." ~John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel