Whatever Happened to that Novel?

Everyone including the Pondit has great expectations (hey another book title idea).  But the gap between expectations and achievements is often significant.  Some of you have noticed that chapters one through ninety-eight which were posted on this blog have disappeared.  The Pondit got very spooked while driving up US41 in Naples to go golfing and listening to NPR.  The piece was about self published books on Amazon.  The topic was specifically erotic novels.  These novels are the top selling self-published books.  Many are written by the same author using different pen names.  As it turns out many of those works were plagiarized from other sources.  Since Amazon online novel royalties are never that great, it is very hard for the original author to fight this practice.  I decided that no more posting of The Briefcase.

I am once again writing on a regular schedule.  I start before the Florida sun rises in the east.  Today I finished chapter one hundred and nineteen.  My scratchy and flexible outline has me finishing the first draft with chapter one hundred and twenty-six.  I should be done in ten days or so depending on my golf and winter visitor schedules.

For those of you who were following the book's progress and are still alive, he is some information on what has happened.  Patty continues to go downhill.  He was demoted at work and is not in favor with the DEA brass.  He continues to be obsessed with the Rivera case.  He is in the middle of a divorce.  Chet, Anna, Harry, Cindy and Theresa have been to Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby.  So has Agent Finnegan!  Finnegan has been involved in another sting operation that went badly.  He was injured in a gunfight and his partner was killed.  That evening Patty made a career decision.  The Mary Immaculate Star of the Seas School had a very successful fundraiser event.  Patty  has been forced to resign from the DEA.  Chet is planning a laundering trip to the Belmont Stakes.  Theresa and Harry now are in a serious relationship.

Updates to follow.  Does anyone know an editor or publisher looking for a new, exciting book to review?