There are a couple projects I have going right now, including revising a new 500-word short story and looking over a more finished one. After they’ve been sent to their respective contests, it’s back to work on the novel again.
NEWS: I also just found out my favorite book store will close in March. Wolfgang Books was much more than a place to buy books. It was where I wrote a large part of my novel’s first draft, where my kids bought their books.
In his email announcement, the owner Jason said e-readers (among other things) played a role in sealing the store’s fate. What do you think? Like Netflix doomed the video store, will the rise of digital books wipe out most brick and mortar book stores?
Shawn Proctor 
Did you see the office last night? Darryl buys an e-reader and hides it from the rest of the office — he’s afraid he will get fired for using a paper-free book.
I think e-readers will impact actual book stores. I wouldn’t have said so a few years ago … I was a holdout in buying music off of iTunes and would always buy cds. Now, I would say that 90% of what I buy musically is digital and I only buy a few actual cds a year. I can see myself doing the same with books. Bill has an e-reader and loves it (and we have way less books around the house — the kid owns more books than a library).
I was very slow to adopt an iPod. Now though, I’m glad that I don’t have to lug around CDs.
Not sure I can make the jump to digital readers. I (heart) books and bookstores. As a boy, the one luxury my mom afforded me was a book at the bookstore, and I loved the experience of holding a book.