After giving it a lot of thought I have come to the conclusion that I won’t be involved in “Functional Programming in Java”. There are many reasons, including that I just don’t think I can spend the time to make this a good book. Looking at all the things I have scheduled for the rest of the year, I can’t find the time to work on it.

More depressingly, the thought of spending a year or more writing another book makes me anxious. I know from experience that making a book (at least a good one)...