March Update
A mundane, pedestrian title, to be sure. My day job has dibs on my time, and slipping in time for fresh writing has been tough. Okay, that’s a cop out—I’ve had a couple of months of dithering with a novel that started as a single POV YA novella with a little magic thrown into reality into a four POV novel, complete with attendant character arcs, crises, and antagonists. The (somewhat) misleading tag line, as of now, is: Jewish widower with two kids meets a Jewish fairy.
Yes, I know there are no Jewish fairies. (Nor non-Jewish ones, but that’s another story.)
The research is difficult (it takes place in 1979), and, except for the famed Golem of Prague, there’s no specific mythology as exist in other religions or regions of the world. I’ve got a deadline on June 1 to complete the first draft and get it to alpha readers, so my Shmuley Myers murder mystery series is on hiatus until this is out.