News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #104…

The more the merrier. Born Lew Alcindor, NYC native Kareem Abdul-Jabbar certainly doesn’t have to worry about name recognition. The 2.18 m (7’2”) NBA legend said in the Sydney Morning Herald (9/19): “…writing has basically been what I wanted to do the whole time.” Meaning? He had a day-job (day-and-night-job?) that distracted him because he had to put food on the family table? At any rate, we have something in common. By the way, his new book, Mycroft Holmes, is #10! I think they all are writ...