There are fourteen chapters plus an epilogue, so we have a ways to go, both figuratively and geographically. Except for the Metropolis roads (modeled after those in our New York), I've driven each and every road mentioned in this tale, and been to nearly all of the cities and towns that pop up. It's amazing what you learn when you drive across the U.S. of A.


Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.

- Stephen King, from On Writing