Friends, My father, who is 87, is in critical condition, so I will be travelling this week to Kauai to be with him. As you can understand, you probably won't be hearing much from me this week. I will have a laptop, so eventually I'll set up over there and resume posting as time permits. The book is now complete, and Chris (our web guru and my publisher) is putting the finishing touches on the cover. We still expect to have it available by Christmas, and if not then, soon thereafter. I'll let you know. It will be on booksurge.com, alibris.com, and amazon.com. We'll be trying to get it into bookstores as well, but that may take a while. The book tour is coming together. It will probably begin in January, depending on how my father is doing. So far, people have volunteered to be 'tour hosts' in Palo Alto, San Francisco, Mendocino, Eugene, Vancouver (and environs), Montreal, Chicago, Boston (and environs), Washington DC, Miami, Tulsa, Tucson, and San Diego. If you are in one of those locations and would like to help out, or if you are interested in hosting somewhere else, please let me know. As I'll traversing the continent twice, west to east and then east to west, it would certainly make good sense to include more locations. I'll be travelling on an Amtrak pass that provides unlimited travel in the USA and Canada. At each location, the plan is to have a book signing in a local bookstore, and also to have a gathering of local people for a dialog session, as a kind of harmonization experiment. Also, I'd hope to participate in a radio interview (by phone) in each location a few days prior to the events, as a way of promoting the events. I'll be depending on the hosts to arrange all the local activities, and also to put me up while I'm in town. We'll be putting together a 'hosting kit', including flyers and posters, and suggestions on how to approach bookstores and radio stations. bye for now, rkm http://cyberjournal.org