Aphrodite, found!

Well, I can tell you the wordsmith is out and engaged on all 13 cylinders...I just got word that he has come up with a design for the cover of his much-anticipated book RONIN IN THE TEMPLE OF APHRODITE and even procured a model for it. He has designed all of his book covers aside from his 1997 volume PANTHEON and even executed the cover for Daniel S. McTaggart's MIDNIGHT MUSE IN A CONVENIENCE STORE.

No initial sales reports on his sexual healing volume 101 GREAT EROTIC POEMS. I have to admit I figure it will sell well, if only for the title. It is a shame that a good marketing title is more important than the innards, but such is life when we live in a society dominated not by those who achieve, but by those who tell us about who we should think of as achievers.

The volume is not dirty or pornographic, but is graphic and frank in its depiction of sexuality as something healthy and healing between lovers, a balm I am afraid that has been avoiding him lately. He is so focused on his work and still, I fear, nursing the emotional scars of the brutality of his last major relationship that he is in no rush to burn again, although it is in his instincts to love, feel, merge with another.

A shame. Not so much for him, but for the poor woman who should be with him who is, undoubtably, settling for, at best, less than she deserves. I hope his return to LA remedies this travesty.