Sold four MESSIAHS. (And a second cousin reported at FB that she bought one.)
The first and second went to and electrical engineer from Eritrea, who had come to the US as a teenager. He bought one for himself and one as a gift for a relative. The third went to a former secretary of mine and the fourth to a retired social worker who wanted it for a friend in NYC, who had bought books of mine previously when visiting. (Everyone received a t-shirt.)
I also gave an IWKYA to a retired attorney in the DC area whom I know from an on-line discussion (mainly basketball and politics) group. He’d expressed interest in my health saga. It was a gift because I had previously signed it for an elementary school friend, currently living in Florida, who has memory problems and, for reasons known only to him, had decided I needed it back. “So it’s personally inscribed,” I told the fellow in D.C., “only not to you.”
Meanwhile, I have not heard from the reporter who’d expressed interest in writing about MESSIAHS for an on-line daily or from the woman who wanted to discuss my research technique. (This was the second time she has dropped this ball, so I am giving up on her.)
In other news…
The documentary about Dan O’Neill and the Air Pirates is moving along. The first meeting in 40 years between Dan and one member of the crew was filmed. (Another was ill and couldn’t make it and will have to be filmed separately.) The copyright expert the documentarian hoped to interview has health problems too. And so does he.
So there is this aspect of the project being a race against time.
So many Bob Levins on the Internet; I'm the Bob Levin who writes.