It's mid-October.  The catboat has been put to bed for the winter and the Bass and Bluefish Derby has ended.  In two weeks we head for Turkey.
 
     DELISH (The JW Jackson -Martha's Vineyard Cookbook) is now out and it's already getting some nice press!  You can find out more or order a copy by going to <vineyardstories.com<.
        THIRD STRIKE, the new Brady Coyne\J.W. Jackson mystery which I co-wrote with Bill Tapply, was sent to Scribner, who lost it!  It's now been sent again, as has the revised ms of VINEYARD STALKER, the eighteenth book in my MV mystery series, which will be out in June, 2007. 
          I'm now working on the first book of a new  2-book contract from Scribner  for further books in the series.  If I ever finish it, it should be out in June 2008.  The working title is THE ADVENTURER.
            I'm also still slowly writing the autobiography that my son wants.   I've most recently described our tractor and horse-drawn farm machinery and the work we did when I was a kid: making hay, harvesting grain, etc.