Plouf is the cat who roams freely in my workspace -- on my lap, and across the keys. 1@#46%&zzzzzz is her current URL. Plouf means splash in French; specifically the sound a fish makes when it completes the arc of a leap and plops into the water. Plouf is also the name of a seafood restaurant in San Francisco.

SPLASH! my return to blogging



                                                             FINI!

Diving back into the blogosphere after an absence of two years, I can  pronounce that I have, as promised, finished my novel.  Finished is of course  a relative term.   I am profoundly grateful to my  two final readers, who read, marked up, commented on and enjoyed my manuscript.  I am pleased to the extent that I am ready to send it off to the numerous agents whose requirements look to be a potential good fit for me.  It is a giant leap into the unknown.

I have enjoyed every moment of the three year plus process and will desperately miss the characters I have now set free to live the rest of their lives without my guidance.  Another assortment of characters inhabit my dreams ...  waiting to be sketched in on the pages of a new project.

Discarding the many blog-posts I rattled off about baseball trivia in the past, my hope for future posts is a careful restructuring of the storytelling process –– from the moment a photo of a ballplayer and his daughter captured my attention ––  to the final words of the  story  ... "Play ball."

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