It starts all over again. Since the book is about to go into production, in preparation for a spring 1997 publication, I've removed all but the preface from the Web site. I've gotten an enormous amount of valuable feedback and suggestions from people all over the world who read the manuscript version, for which I'm quite grateful. Death-March Draft Chapters Preface Draft 1.01, updated June 28, 1996. Browse the preface on the Web, or download the Microsoft Word file.
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.