[CT] Hi.

[Dan Moran]

It's the James Camber stuff, substantially redone. It's about 200 pages
of text -- 160 pages of novel + outline of "A Symphony in Black," 40
pages of outline of "The Hotel California." The first five books are
sketched out and I've got titles running 8 or 9 books out -- it's Travis
McGee territory, though the character's not as nice as Travis. It's also
a good bit darker than the chapters sitting on kithrup.com -- and
there's a one-eyed guy named FatSam who's a recurring character, now.
:-)

I've got to get real money for these books -- way more than I ever got
for my SF -- or I can't write them. I have no idea in the world if I can
do that, but I'm giving it a shot. I'm afraid I'm going to go blind in
my other eye -- which would make doing what I now do, working with
computers, problematic. But I can write even if my vision is scragged in
both eyes -- I say I'm blind in one eye, but I have peripheral vision in
the right eye, and I can actually read with astonishing slowness out of
that eye -- slower than my 7 year old reads; we compared the other day.
I was wearing a patch for about 6-8 months -- I just got out of it. I'm
not clear yet if I'm going to be able to stay out of it or not; I'm in
new glasses, a Rube Goldberg lense-and-prism affair, that blurs out the
right eye and lines up the double vision horizontally and vertically to
where I can make my way about without the patch. Mixed results so far.
Driving, OK; reading, not so good. Headaches. The patch was a pain in
the butt and I missed my peripheral vision, but I didn't get headaches
with it.

Am I ever getting back to the CT stuff? I hope to, but I'm making no
promises. Life has been a constant surprise to me, recent years.

-----Original Message-----
From: continuing-time-bounces at ralf.org
[mailto:continuing-time-bounces at ralf.org] On Behalf Of Dave Godwin
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:11 AM
To: Discussion of works/books of Daniel Keys Moran
Subject: Re: [CT] Hi.


Hi Dan,

    Are these the James Camber books, or do you have something else
cooking
here?

    Dave Godwin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Moran" <Jimbo at QueenOfAngels.com>
To: <continuing-time at ralf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:08 PM
Subject: [CT] Hi.


> Anyway, I'm not dead and I've got a proposal for two crime novels
> looking for a home at the moment. Actually at an agent's as we speak -
> no guarantee of representation from him, but I'm hopeful he'll be
> interested.
>
> - Dan Moran