Hi there Martha and Happy New Year to you and everyone else on this thread!!
And yeah, Wow!! isn't it great that people keep popping up out of that magnificent journey of yours!?!!
I guess you can relax right now about the book for a year or so as the Queen of England would have a hard itme publishing her erotic diaries in the current economic climate!! But seriously, don't give up, it is a great story, wonderfully told, and books do get published - the economy is slowing down, it isn't stopping!! We still got to eat and entertain ourselves...
We had a great Christmas here and I hope you and your daughters did too. Incidentally, I don't know if you have heard of it, but I was given a brilliant, witty, insightful and worrying book called Deer Hunting With Jesus by Joe Bageant. Maybe it will amuse you, or maybe it will anger you, and maybe you recognise the people he writes about, his friends and family in West Virginia, but I believe it must be of interest to all thinking people at some level. As a long distance admirer and life long friend of America, it told me stuff I needed to learn, especially in his explanation of the meaning and symbolism of guns in that society and in setting my European prejudices straight on a lot of the myths and legends about American gun laws and habits. And if you ever tire of hearing our illustrious governments telling us no-one could have predicted the collapse of the mortgage markets read what Joe had to say back in 2006!!
Anyway, it got published so this is also just to say, you/we can still get our stuff out there...
All the best as ever
Rory