Hot Michigan Summer
Hello from Ann Arbor. I've been here for eight weeks and have four more to go. Unlike last summer, a heat wave sent temperatures well into the 90s and taxed the window unit AC in my apartment. That coupled with storms and power outages has made it seem more like Atlanta weather. I've been doing the day job, exploring Ann Arbor, making forays into Detroit (including the beautifully restored Michigan Central Station, pictured), and also quietly starting to work on the fourth Venus novel, expanding the trilogy into a tetralogy. I've got a rough outline of the novel, more detailed outlines of specific chapters, and I've started going back through the first four chapters I've already written. While preparing more material for my archive at the Georgia State University Library, I came across my original treatment for Remain In Light . This dates back to the late 1990s or 00s when my then-agent Roslyn Targ told me to get cracking on a sequel because she was certain Conq
