More Scribbling

[Not my desk but you get the idea. Photo by eleonora at Unsplash]

I have some Substack essays to complete and a second novel that was set aside while Pilate's Magician was completed.

My assumption was that little book could be quickly done. [Guffaws in the hallway. Snorts in the den. Gunshots in the street.]

Now my office is recovering from the avalanche of paperwork surrounding the novel and yet the second book may also - will also - produce its own mountain ranges.

The task includes explaining a system where defense attorneys argue that their clients are guilty and physicians don't blink at the conscious, smoothly designed, murder of their "patients."

It sounds like something out of Orwell or Huxley but much more traditional. 

All about power. And that always makes it trickier.

Bear with me.

[And if you haven't read Pilate's Magician, whatsamatta you?]