Long talk with Neil Nyren of Putnam late last week before heading to family wedding over weekend (to include the impromptu trip to Canton).

Upshot is, I will recast the proposal to make it bigger in scope and content. I let the "how to" career strand dominate the book's proposed structure, when I needed--in Neil's mind--to keep the extension of the vision paramount.

There's no chance I can target the spring of 08, given Mark Warren's work with Harry Reid, and the fall of 08 is looking unbelievably crowded (not to mention the lack of available airspace due to the election), so the target is likely the first couple months of 2009.

Since I wrote BFA in January and February of 2005, I'll have three full years of new material to mine for Vol. III, casting it more in the vein of "Where do we go now?"

I'm excited to have this broader focus, which I should have aspired to naturally but for whatever reason did not. But Neil is good in that way, telling me that by the start of 2009 (with the new administration), people will want big answers.