SEVENTY: STORIES, POEMS, AND A SCREENPLAY OF THREE-BOOK DEAL, A SERIES OF RELATED BOOKS. April 12 - May 7. 40,000 words. Looking for a job, pitching Three-Book Deal to New York. Approaching my 70th birthday. Owen plays with the Blueground Undergrass in Santa Rosa Beach. We go to see them, keep Rowan for the weekend. Take Rowan to The Red Bar, to return him to Jennifer and Balder, and Guthrie Trapp is playing with Dread Clampitt. He cut a track on their new CD. Good music. I publish the pamphlets Research (a story) and Regional Writer (poems) and send them out with my proposal for Three-Book Deal. I decide to go to Potterfest. I’ll see Grant Peeples there. On Lake Seminole, in Sneads. On the edge of the Sopchoppy - Hogtown Bayou - Two Egg SMSA. I decide to write a screenplay of Three-Book Deal. At the end of SEVENTY: STORIES & POEMS.