Well, the long-promised/threatened book is coming closer and closer to being sprung out of the nest. I am pretty damn happy with how the covers - front and back - look; see above. I am aiming for a mid-March initial printing and holding a book release party at that same time. I may try and figure out how to make signed copies available in other ways should anyone actually be interested in such a thing.

Coincidentally (or not) some of the stories should start appearing in The Jerusalem Post Lite right around the time they are available to purchase in their entirety; the stories in the magazine will most likely be edited for length, etc., but they will also be illustrated by my friend Meital so there's some give and take there.

I should make up a website specific to "A Rose by any Other Name" some time very soon to tease some of the tales and make the books available to purchase.

Meanwhile, as I write the "About the Author" bio for the back of the book, I am drafting a more cinematic angled one to get to a Lit Manager who is threatening to sign me. Not jinxing or cursing anything here in any way, shape or form (at least I sure as heck hope I'm not) but there's some script stuff kicking around after quite some time of that stuff laying rather dormant, so that feels like some good possibility there.

The ghostwritten movie had its online premiere on Tuesday night, but I have yet to watch. That should come to pass tomorrow night so expect something along the lines of a review even if technically I am probably not contractually permitted to name the movie.

Chavez inked. Aardsma, too although he's an "R & D" project according to Cashman. If they get anything out of the recovering hard-throwing rightie this season it will be a boon; the goal is more what he can deliver on the cheap when he's fully healthy in 2013. Nice quiet spring so far...

Thanks,

Brian