My own news, as always

...is that I am under a stupidly tight deadline due to that intense computer problem I had with WORD 2007 that didn't get resolved until last Monday. So on I scribble at a furious pace. But I hope the final result will be as erotically and romantically beguiling as ever!! I will of course keep you posted on that front.

Meanwhile, fall has indeed arrived. Leaves are turning hither and yon and I couldn't be happier. Everything looks truly splendid -- whenever I come up for air and look around me, that is.

Thank god for the guys I hired to take care of my lawn. Every Monday morning, like clockwork, they arrive and do in 10 minutes what would take me an entire day. Thanks to them, when I do pop up for air, everything looks nice and tidy, yard-wise.

Are/were you a Harold Robbins fan by any chance? I never was, but still... the New York Times has an interesting review of a new biography on him.

Never Enough: A Writer’s Life of Sex, Drugs and Excess


Published: October 15, 2007

Here is a specimen of Harold Robbins’s infamous prose style, beloved by any teenager who ever had a copy of “The Carpetbaggers” and a flashlight: “Little did she realize that, while the relationship would satisfy many of her wildest fantasies — traveling the world, socializing with the rich and famous, enjoying a gilded lifestyle of yachts, Champagne and caviar — the dream would turn into a depraved nightmare of orgies and drugs, and ultimately a broken marriage.”

And here’s the catch: This isn’t Robbins’s work. It isn’t even fiction. It’s a campy sentence by the otherwise more straightforward Andrew Wilson, Robbins’s biographer. It’s about Robbins’s second wife, Grace, the one who swanned around the Aegean Sea wearing 14-karat gold fingernails, as befit her husband’s sense of quiet decorum. Read the full review here.

Okay, gang, on that note, I need to start traveling the world, socializing with the rich and famous and enjoying a gilded lifestyle of yachts, Champagne and caviar... or at least meet my current deadline. See ya! Thanks for visiting.

 

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