"Dream Talker" has been picked up by Pen-L Publishing for release in 2014! One of the top editors in the country, Duke Pennel picked up the tab for lunch last month, an eye-to-eye meeting I insisted upon. By the end of the meal, I was convinced that his business model was a good fit for me.

No BS. No rainbows. No advance. No reprieve from hard work. No unrealistic expectations.

"Why did you write this book?" he asked me. I told him that the only pursuits worthy of human endeavor are perfection and immortality...and one of these can never be achieved, so I write.

After lunch, I returned to Mississippi along the same eight-hour route originally mapped for me by Google, but unfortunately I was unable to avoid a head-on collision with Little Rock, Arkansas at rush hour in the middle of a sky-blackening thunder boomer.

My GPS kept telling me to turn around and go back, so I unplugged it and threw it on the car floor and stomped it until it was dead, dead, dead.

In retrospect, I should have simply turned it off.

Fourteen hours later, I was home. I wrote to Duke Pennel and told him I would not be able to return to Fayetteville unless God smote Little Rock into pillars of salt and opened the Earth to swallow it whole.

Or I could go around.

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