This AM I’m remote from the Ellice Theatre and Cafe, home of the cheap and good breakfast - and living memorial to the late great Harry Lehotsky. Free plug; http://www.ellicetheatre.com. The mail list for invitations to the May 27 launch is almost done. Today, I understand, the galleys go back to the printers. That’s it, now we’re stuck! To pick up the back story. Ray B. agreed to act as my literary agent in 2007. He approached Harper Collins, who Ray had recently prevailed upon to publish Sabrina Bernardo’s ‘Inner City Girl Like Me’. Again to my shock, the first editor liked it enough to push it along the chain. Over the course of the next year (yes, year) it moved along, finding favour at each step. At what I am told is the last stage, the commercial decision stage, it was determined that it was not needed for the fall(?) program, but how about we pick it up again in the spring (2008)? In the meantime, Ray tried Simon & Schuster, but they were lukewarm to any unpublished author. Remember mes amis, I had done nothing yet to get the book publlshed - besides show it to a few friends, one of whom luckily showed to Ray! Anyway, Ray asked me if I wanted to expand the search. After the initial excitement of Harper’s interest, I had become disenchanted with the process. It seemed like brokerage - smilin’ an dailin’ - and that’s what I had retired from. Ray felt the same, but he had another idea. Later.