Joel Pollak

It's going very well.

I'm more than halfway through the first draft.

I am going to write several drafts, so it's not going to come out next week, but it will hopefully come out before the end of the year.

The goal is that it would be on sale in time for the holiday shopping season.

So I'm guessing maybe a target date for release of something like October.

Wow.

We will have to go through another draft that'll take...

a little bit longer to finish probably by June or July and then revisions and editing over the summer and then hopefully publication by the fall.

So I know that's going to be frustrating to people who want something right away, but you'll just have to wait.

And yeah, but it just, it takes a long time to do this right.

And it's the second biography I've worked on.

The first one I worked on took about,

a year and a half to do and that also went through several drafts this won't be quite as long in terms of the process or in terms of the book length because it's got to be readable above all and also because in the earlier biography that i wrote i wrote about my mother-in-law actually who was a very prominent civil rights activist in south africa i

wrote a long book because a lot of her writing, even though she was also famous as a writer, a lot of it hadn't been published.

So I wanted to include excerpts of some of her writing.

Whereas with Scott, he's written so much and he's actually told his own story so many times that we have the luxury in a sense, or maybe the additional burden, if you want to look at it that way of writing a shorter and more concise and direct biography.

So that's what I'm working on right now.

And it's going very well.

And as with exercise, as with just about anything you want to do, Scott's advice was you do a little bit every day.

And that's how this is going as well.