Point and Shoot, Florida (YU)--A lot happened with Heap's writing in Delray Beach. They lived there ten years.

Eventually, they moved to Panama City.

Heap wrote a series of books called Ten-Year Run. 35 books. Among them were Screed, his first published book, Common Sense, Full Plate, Blue Darter, and Lost Writings, which he wrote at IBM, Evil Genius, Open Book, a pair of books he mortgaged the house he had inherited from his grandparents when they died to write, and publish, and Forty, about selling Evil Genius and Open Book at Fantasy Fest '86 in Key West and Miami Book Fair International.

He was to go 18 years after Forty was published before LitVision Press published Bukowski Never Did This: A Year in the Life of an Underground Writer and His Family.

The First Nine Novels, My Chronicle, and Ten-Year Run took Heap up to 51 books.

50 books, without selling a word to New York or Hollywood, was a significant milestone, for Heap.

He became, if not obsessed with the subject, preoccupied about it.

What was he doing wrong? When would his turn come? Was it him who was crazy--or everybody else?

How likely was that?