The Next Best Thing

I’m midway through a writer’s retreat in southern France, at La Muse — about a half hour north of Carcassonne. Under normal circumstances, home would feel a world away, but of course that is no longer the case thanks to << les internets >>. While here I was gratified to read a review on Goodreads that captured, in a single sentence, what I was trying to do in FROM SQUARE ONE. As Phillip points out, I wrote the book to “mimic the feel and philosophy of a crossword puzzle.” I believe he is the first to notice.