Met at the St. Paul Hotel with my editor to puzzle over the hunting book, which has me worried.  It's a problematic project with some built in birth defects, especially in terms of audience.  See my previous blog entry on "Pre-writing Strategies...."  My main worry about the hunting book is that I'm no longer a hunter at heart.  Me and Thoreau, as we got older....  I'm also a serious curmudgeon when it comes to modern hunting technology, gear, and overall vision promoted by the outdoor channels.  The high tech gear, the inane talk by witless bubbas, the obsession with trophy animals--all that is as far from my idea of hunting as a velvet painting of the Last Supper is to a cathedral.   Sorry--I'll save it for the book, if indeed there is one in me.  Right my rhetorical position is Argument–against all that is wrong with modern hunting.

Other news:  My second Motor Novel, Super Stock Rookie, is due out in a couple of weeks.  The first one has sold more in hard cover, faster, than any of my YA titles, but Lord knows I've worked hard on its behalf.  Have been on the road nearly full time recently, including southern MN and Iowa City Schools, and next week all the way to South Texas. Team Weaver Racing will take the No. 16 "Bookmobilie" and do a bunch of schools as far south as Corpus Christi.

After I get home I have a couple of "remarks" to make at conventions (and my first college commencement address), then it's once more to the lake.  Actually, the river--the Mississippi–where my wife and I live.  We'll relax and swim and boat for the summer, though she'll teach one summer class.  The three months of northern MN summer make the long winter worthwhile.

Speaking of summer life, my essay "Up-North Literary Life", posted here earlier, has been picked up for inclusion in an anthology to published by the big MN literary center, The Loft.  Cool.