On The Road With Al and Ivy: Blog

"Homer died two hundred years ago, or more, and we still speak of him as though he were living...the others he wrote in his epic of the Trojan War. They are mere shadows, given substance by his songs; which alone retain the force of life; the power to soothe or stir or draw tears." - Robert Graves (Homer's Daughter 1955) I celebrated a half million views in the November blog entry, and this month should see another milestone; the completion of the final draft of the book. It'll still need to be line edited (and possibly refined as a result) but I decided last month that it was time to finish. I remember good friend, author and editor, Melody Ramone, once telling me that there'd come a time when it felt "finished" and added half jokingly that I'd also might be sick to death of the manuscript. That was certainly true, though being "sick of it" in my case is more a case of the musical equivalent, which is feeling that the work is as good as i...