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A three pipe problem

The odd bit is not losing a post. The odd bit is losing a post. I mean, I have no idea where it is. It's not even in drafts. And I quite distinctly remember writing it and posting it. (Shakes head in an extremely puzzled sort of way.)

I even have a chunk of it sitting in notepad, which I shall now cut and paste...

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Yesterday's flying option worked brilliantly, especially when I learned that traffic was backed up so badly on I-94 that it would have taken me five hours to get to Madison and another five hours to get home again, so Dr Dan's small plane solution saved me about 8 hours. I went in, talked to Peter Straub and Gary Wolfe in front of a large audience, learned that I was very nearly part of a literary movement called "The Mountain Behind the Other Mountain" (Gary did all the work at keeping things going while Peter and I pontificated and burbled) scribbled very fast on people's books, and then flew home.

Also Susan Straub gave me a copy of her new book (It's called Reading WithBabies, Toddlers and Twos.)

Pete is half of Hill House Publishers, who assure me that they'vemended their ways after a 2006 during which they were very bad atletting people know what was going on. They've put a web page upletting people know what's happening -- and it looks like a lot is happening -- athttp://hillhousepublishers.com/hh-break01.htm. I'm still receivingsome scattered reports of people who are waiting for information orreplies from them though, so let me know if you're in that category andI'll do my best to make sure they get back to you.

Neil,

Thanks, first of all, for posting the announcement for the panel about your novels that I'm chairing at the College English Association. Could you please let your readers know that the deadline has been shifted to November 30?