Dreaming of Athens: The Greek Novel Revisited

Street sign in Athens Yesterday, my agent sent me notes on my Greek novel--a list of things that are working well and other things that could be working better. There's rewriting to be done--one key character in particular isn't quite coming across the way I meant him to--but the good news is that my agent thinks the novel's already in pretty good shape. Seen on the Acropolis While I've waited for the notes, I've kept busy by doing some preliminary work on two other projects, both too tentative to say much about. One of them is collaborative, so its fate is largely out of my hands. The other's a solo effort, but a bit scarily different from anything I've done before. photo by Shawn Krahmer Heal Both projects are so new that even as I've been typing away at them I've wondered whether they will ever amount to anything, whether my summer might be better spent lazing at the beach or chasing rock stars from venue to venue. Mayb