I Want to Believe

My sister and I wrote this book together, and we put a couple years of our lives into it, and now it's done, and we're trying to sell it, and at the moment we're not having much luck, all of which is naturally kind of a downer. So I find myself at loose ends. I should be working on something new --- we even have a couple of ideas --- but I'm not ready to let go of (you guessed it) The Long Black Veil just yet, and everything I write sounds like shit anyway.

This is a good story --- it's got love and sex and betrayal and murder and loss and all that stuff that makes for great drama (as long as it's happening to somebody else; I myself have a 'no drama' clause in my life at the moment). I want to see it published, probably more than I've wanted anything in my whole life. In fact, scratch the probably. So I'm entreating the universe here, actually verbalizing my most potent desire, throwing it out there for you and all creation to see. SOMEBODY HELP US!!! I promise, it's worth it.

The two so-called psychics I've talked to this year told me to ask the universe for help and to hang in there, that it would happen sooner rather than later.

I want to believe.