It's been three months now since I last posted here (!), but I have been very busy with work. Most significantly I have been working steadily on the Cornell Woolrich biography and I have finished seven of its projected ten chapters, amounting to 105,000 words. That's 35,000 words a month, almost 9000 words a week. I feel it's gone really well, I very much am pleased with what I have written and the more narrative approach I have taken with it. I've actually discovered a lot of new information on Cornell's life, particularly the first thirty years of it; and I feel I provide a better, more sympathetic (though realistic) assessment of Cornell's character than does his first biographer Francis Nevins, creator of what I have called the Black Legend.
I hope to have the book wrapped up in December. I'll be talking to a podcast in a couple of weeks about both Cornell Woolrich and Fredric Brown and I will keep you posted about that. Meanwhile, I have some Halloween posts I want to get uploaded tonight; so I will talk to you again soon, I hope!
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