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Thanks!

OK, I'm dying here. Wrote to Felipe to thank him for the club night, and got back "Stories? *I* have stories! You should write a book about me! I can give you a MILLION stories! I owned the Roxbury and the Century Club back in the day!"

Cross Robert Patrick with Callum Keith Rennie, and that's the Patrick in my head.

Yes. There's someone else, too, I just can't think of him, darn it. It's a facade of affable, behind which is the stone predator.

Good luck with the fame, Deb.

Ghost Writing

I could always sense ghosts. Not see them; I was never that sensitive. But now and again I would walk into a room, and feel a sudden chill; I’d know that a tall redhead , or well-padded blonde, or an old blind man used to spend a lot of time there, and that part of them was still around. If there was someone around to ask, I could always confirm the first part.

I don’t know why I assumed that becoming a ghost myself would improve my sixth sense. But I still can’t see dead people – not even myself really. And neither the dead nor the living can see me. For obvious reasons I studied what a lot of religions had to say about the afterlife long before I entered it. But none of them advertised it as such a lonely place.

Deb - may your wish happen.

Not my fame - someone else's. He deserves to be there and I deserve a shot at making it happen. I've put more than heart into it, I've put blood and sinew and thirty years of penance.

So many ifs. But I'm not stopping. It's time.

And I'm scared shitless.

Anyway. Gar, that's a good one.

Gar, that is particularly noteworthy in light of the conversation in Bitches. Very well done.

Deb, good luck with the piano! Hope it all happens the way you want.

Oh my.

REVIEWS SCHEDULED FOR THE AUGUST 15 ISSUE OF KIRKUS, AS OF August 1:

....Grabien, Deborah, Cruel Sister

Good thing my brain is completely occupied elsewhere. Opening salvo of the new round of reviews always makes me nervous until I see it.