Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 12 March 2005
Jumping through our asses, as they say in the military. Painter comes on Thursday to do entire first floor and stairwells up and down. Mother-in-law arriving same day. Day before we host some friends from China (Beijing U). Both girls got bad colds. Snowed all day. House going on market in about a month. Filling out parochial school forms for Indiana (we are now targeting Franklin but others still in the race). Warren's editing chapters 1-3 and will have something to me within hours. The deadline looms, the two Esquire stories loom . . . but Favre returns!
So all is well with the world.
Email from Neil Nyren at Putnam: sales people worried about similarity of old and new titles, so we go with cover (which I received last week while on road), but official title will be Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating so as to avoid title confusion in data bases and search engines. I am happy with this decision. The "PNM" brand will still appear atop the cover, as will the words "New York Times Bestselling Author" above my name.
I'll try to post the cover art tomorrow. I really love it, especially the color.
But tonight I set up a giant Rokenbok monorail system with Jerry. Making up for missing his birthday.
