Progress on the new book has been off and on. I am definitely behind on the schedule I set for myself, but that was inevitable. That's the bad news. The good news is that the story is emerging better than my original imagining of it. Characters and plot elements are developing like seedlings breaking through the earth to revel in their cotyledons. This has become something that breathes on its own. All I have to do now is provide the words to feed it.