Fumbling around in the dark

Well, the SFBC is bringing out an edition of THE WINTER OAK, and they've asked me for an "Author's Note" to go with the ad. And I don't have a clue what to send. "700 characters, including spaces" quoth the email. "Personal." "Anything you like."

Great. Just bleeping great. I don't think I can even make this journal entry meet that 700 character limit. This is worse than trying to write a synopsis*.

*If I could have told the story in three pages, I wouldn't have used 500....