Though you have not seen any posts for 40 lately, let me assure you that I have been working on it in between exercising and recovering from my lumbar epidural injections.
1) I am nearly finished editing the first six segments. The edits, however, are not reflected in the blog posts. I have a reader/editor lined up to help me hone it for an agent.
2) I am writing and doing research for my next segment of 40, which is an extensive dream sequence where the narrator, Mark Byatt, has gone in search for his wife and kids. I am planning on submitting this story, tentatively titled "Shadow Dreams," to a journal or online magazine.
In the meantime, I wrote up a brief description of the novel. Tell me if it would sound good enough to end up on the back cover.
In a hotel room high above the scintillating lights of the Las Vegas strip, a middle-aged man wakes up to discover he is not the man he thinks he is. He has aged. He's wasted away. And a driver's license insists he not only has a different name but also resides in a town he's never heard of and in a state where he's certain he has never lived.
As memories from a tragic past surface, a collusion of events unfold in the sweltering days and nights of Sin City that force him to wrestle with his new identity, mete out justice, and salve the aching loss that consumes him.
40 is a mosaic of fantastical dreams, adventures, and exploitations through psycholgoical landscapes and the seductive and criminalistic underworld of Vegas.
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