Right after we eat, sleep, and procreate comes our insatiable hunger for story, our need to find out all we can about what it means to be human. That's always going to be with us. Technology is giving us new ways to present and read stories, but I can't for the life of me ever foresee a time when the comforting pleasures of holding a beautiful, carefully produced book with its softly rustling pages will be replaced by downloads of plain text. Better to read that than not read at all. Sure, it's the story they'll connect with.
Electronic technology is only as good as the power source.
The printed, bound, hand-held book IS the power source. It's here to stay and in the long run, will probably be more cherished than ever. I also work sporadically on my Garnette O'Brien short stories. The first three were published in Cicada, the Cricket Group's literary magazine for teens. I'm beginning to pull together my thoughts for my next novel.