Projects et al

We are in an odd spot creatively where we are editing ANZACs as well as Jake and Patricia and researching The Austrian Painter.

Jake and Patricia is coming along nicely, 70,000 words. We still have to write the final chapter, which should be no big deal and decide if we want to include the Iraq 2005 chapter we started. Short answer on that one is no, not unless we can give it something to make it different from the Iraq 2003 Chapter and the Iraq 2008 chapter.

We'll see.

What else do we have. Here are the chapter heading via location:

-NY State, 1991
-Upstate NY, 1993
-Tampa Florida, 1994
-Jerusalem, Israel, 1996
-Tampa Florida 1998

That's the first half, more or less.

The second half of the book bounces back and forth between Jake in Iraqi in 2008, and Patricia and family back in Tampa. Jake deals with Iraq stuff, obviously, while Patricia is dealing with being an army wife and mother of among other things,  a soon to be 17 year old daughter. Alert readers might want to do the math on that one to understand what the first chapter is about. There's unruly neighbors, bitchy synagogue rivals and all kinds of drama resulting from estrogen poisoning.

We have a few lingering questions. Readers of A Line Through the Deseret (someone blew threw it yesterday, btw) will recall Jake's family and friends in Part I. What happens to them? Where are Devon, Courtney, et al? For that matter what happens to the fiancee of Jake's friend and gunner, Dan?

We actually think a short chapter where this is taken care of might be a good idea.