HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Well, this is an amazing photo of Big Ben. From last new year I think.

It's been a pretty good year.  I got a cool part time job at Blind Service Association.
A Hollywood film producer treated me to steak dinner and we talked for two hours about possibilities.
I designed a website and video for an associate professor in Dubai.
My buddhist practice of chanting and daily prayers are more regular.
I've been making new friends, in town and out of town.
And I finished my second novel THE HOPE STORE.  Below is the pitch for the book.

Feel free to write back and tell me about your 2012 year, or your hopes for 2013.
As any blogger knows, it's a lonely job blogging on the internet.  So comments are great welcomed!

Dwight

Here's my latest pitch for my novel for the Amazon contest:

"We don't just instill hope. We install it." That's the slogan for the first store in the world to sell hope over the counter. Luke Nagano goes to sleep each night dreaming about hope and how to make more of it, ever since he lost his sister. He and his partner prepare the store for its grand opening. As media interest grows, an activist group called the Natural Hopers emerges with the mission to alarm people about the dangers of synthetically created hope. Though the investors are rightly nervous, a stream of hope-enhanced customers begins to sing the store's praises.

When Jada Upshaw first hears of the store, she just laughs. She's wasted plenty of time on magic bullets that didn't work. She's a woman born without a breath of hope. Jada sets out to expose the Hope Store to be the fraud that it surely is -- but to do so she must have a hope installation herself. Her response to the installation forces her to change her plans dramatically, and to re-think the meaning of hope.

A TV station offers to host a town hall meeting on hope, and Luke is tempted by the chance for major exposure -- but it means they’ll have to face the Natural Hopers. Much is at stake as the outcome of this high-profile event could either be the start of a global conversation on enhanced hope – or the end of it.

This story of friendship set in the new millennium explores the thorny relationships between science and faith, placebo and cure, hope and hype. THE HOPE STORE is a soft science-fiction novel.


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