For those of you asking if I am working on another cookbook, the answer is, "no, but . . ."
I am working on a couple of book projects in my spare moments. And one of them is a compilation of essays called The Season We Call Crush. The manuscript is a collection of essays divided into three parts: 101 Other Uses for a Vineyard (vineyard and viticulture), The Magic of Crush (harvest and winemaking), and ... an as-yet-untitled part on wine enjoyment and evaluation. I'll also be throwing in a good deal of autobiographical anecdotes, mostly humorous I'm afraid, about learning the wine business, the colorful people we've met, and working in our vineyard and cellar.
Some of the posts are featured here on the Dover Canyon blog. The finished book will be 90,000-120,000 words. It's currently about 30% finished. I'm also puttering along with other writing projects (excerpt coming up), so I write on this one whenever I need a break from fiction or feel inspired to emulate Wendell Berry or E.B. White.
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