I've Never Been There

I am talking to this woman and I tell her I grew up in Detroit. I've never been there, she says. I wonder if she is thinking that Detroit is some place, some real place where you can go and walk around and see things and note all the interesting places you want to tell the people back home about. I saw a tire, a giant tire, right there by the freeway, looking like it was going to roll right into the cars going by. It was the craziest thing. How could this woman or anyone else know that Detroit is not some place, another stop along the way? How could she know about the nothing that is not there and the nothing that is? Or how the nothing that is rolls out from no center towards no horizon, moving too slowly to allow you to see how things are different now, stuck, instead, thinking it had always been this way.  Where are the people who once lived in the houses that no longer remain? Did anyone ever rise here and go to work and come back in the evening? Was it ever so? How strange to be stuck, frozen in place, between going and gone.

Detroit? I've never been there.

If it were done, it were best done quickly

I got the finalized version of  Heroes back and uploaded it to Amazon today. Now I have to deal with this panicky sense of wondering just what it is that I have gotten myself into. Damn long road from here to the Nobel Prize, eh?

Too Dangerous To Enter?

I see the Detroit Police are warning people not to even go into Detroit because it is too violent.  It sounds as if this is partly posturing by the police union. But, I think there is some truth to this assertion. So many people repeat the mantra that "Detroit is coming back," without ever thinking it through. I am guessing these people have not been there lately and seen the acres upon miles of abandoned homes.  It is stunning to consider the decline of Detroit.  Is it a warning of things to come? An aberration born of unique circumstances? I don't know. I am not smart enough to figure these things out. But, before you tell someone that "Detroit is coming back" take a little time to grasp the enormity of the destruction of the place.

Possible Book Cover

This is what I am thinking about for the Heroes cover.  Suggestions? Ideas? Criticisms? How would you judge this book by this cover?

Cover Design

Nice breakthrough on the cover design today. I like the way it looks. Stark, clean. I hope readers agree.

Big News

Very soon, the prep work will be done and Heroes will be available on Amazon. Check in here often to see when the actual publication date will be.