Hi Everyone: I hope you’ve all had a great holiday season.

**This week I signed a contract with Savant Books and Publications to publish my newest novel, More More Time. This will be the third novel I’ve published with Savant, fifth overall. I am looking forward to working with my new Savant editor, Wendy Dunn, who I know and respect. If all goes well, the book will be out by early fall. Here’s the gist:

In this novel of love and loss, of hope and the constraints of time, we are introduced to Maxwell Ruth, a sixty-two year old high school history teacher who is obsessed with Abraham Lincoln, desperate for a relationship with a woman, and frustrated with a life less great than he had hoped. After a fall down his basement steps, Max starts hearing a voice with a simple yet puzzling message, “endingtimeendingtimeendingtime.” Subsequently, Max’s best friend’s marriage falls apart under the dead weight of indifference, his neighbor’s marriage, already at risk due to infidelity, is revived, and Max falls in love with the lively and sensuous Constance Young. All the while, life’s clock keeps ticking as each discovers the limits of More More Time.
**I have been invited to present a daylong writing workshop for psychotherapists at the annual Psychotherapy Networker Symposium which will be held March 20-23 at the Omni Shoreham in Washington, DC. If you’ve never been to the Networker Symposium, it is terrific. Check it out at: www.psychotherapynetworker.org. Here’s the workshop blurb:

Walking the Writer’s Path (Creativity Day)
From Story Listening to Story Telling
DAVID B. SEABURN
Think you can write? In this workshop, taught by a therapist who is also a published novelist, you’ll explore how to draw upon your experience, aptitude and insight as a clinician to become a better, more imaginative writer. We’ll step through various writing exercises and prompts, read our work aloud, and brainstorm with each other about what comes next.
• Learn how to employ your sense of empathy and understanding of internal emotional states to create realistic characters
• Practice writing dialogue that sounds as realistic as the responses you hear in the consulting room
• Think about which details of appearance, manner or conversation best capture a character—and how to transform such details into descriptions that immediately dramatize a character’s presence
• Identify calming techniques to allay anxiety and get comfortable in front of a blank page

This workshop is based loosely on ideas that I wrote about in a Psychotherapy Networker article two years ago, entitled Stories We Live By. If you’d like to read that article, you can find it at: http://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/recentissues/2011-julyaug/item/1334-the-stories-we-live

**I have also started my next novel. Working title is Parrot Talk.

**My Psychology Today magazine blog is still available at:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/going-out-not-knowing
And, of course, my novels are available at www.amazon.com.


Take care,
Dave