Hi, everyone. I am VERY close to finishing up this year’s Milan Jacovich adventure, “Whiskey Island.” I’m at that point in writing a book—heading down the home stretch, as they say—when I want to write ALL the time. Day, night, middle of the night, whenever. That’s why I know I’ll be finished soon. Of course, my PERSONAL editor, Holly Albin, goes through the manuscript. Then it heads to the publisher, the editor, and eventually to the printer and/or to an ebook. IF all goes well, it’ll be available to everyone by late summer.
However, right now, with perhaps seventy pages left to write, I want to share with you the very first sentence of “Whiskey Island,” maybe to whet your taste until next summer—or at least I HOPE it’ll be the first sentence. I always trust my editors.
The book, to be brief and somewhat mysterious (there is NATURALLY a murder), is all about the illegal doings of local Cleveland politicians. Therefore, Milan’s introductory sentence seems to make sense. It is:
“I think I’ve lived long enough to figure it out; everybody is, in one way or another, corrupt.”
Of course, dear friends and readrs, he doesn’t mean YOU! 
With a first sentence like that, I bet you are inspired by reading the local news reports in the Plain Dealer!
Naturally the stories I read each morning or hear about on TV news did indeed result in my writing this story. Each morning I must read the paper and then rush in and add to my book what’s actually going—and am trying NOT to make it a thousand pages long.