New Book, Total lack of Job updates

      I am very, very excited!!!  I’ve been working on, ahem, my first book.  I emailed drafts of the first few pages around to a couple people, but the silence was deafening.  So I read it to my favorite test audience: my ten-year-old son.  I especially loved the way he thrashed around and bit the pillows on my bed when he got excited over the fight scene.  I love reading to Donal!  He gets so excited about things.
      So I’ve sat up late the last two nights and done a couple more scenes, introduced two more main characters and had some really beautiful description.  I’ve never written so easily!  I always seem to have something to say next.  I’ve been sneaking up the stairs after the kids’ bedtimes (or even a little before) to beat Neal to the computer.  Ha ha ha!!!  And he’s been very gracious about trying to sleep with a pillow over his head because I really bang when I’m typing.  (Those strong piano-trained fingers, I guess.)
      

Oh, and no job yet.  The guy Neal wanted to do contract work through isn’t returning his calls any more.  What’s going on?  We get two companies that promise to send an offer in a few days, and two weeks later, there is still no offer.  We’ve had two other companies do background checks, he’s done about six phone interviews, two face-to-face, everyone’s been so positive… and then nothing.  DAK in Leland, in particular, has been acting very strange.   They had a third party company checking out Neal’s resume.  They’ve been calling here saying, “We can’t find any proof that you took your degree,” and “That company has no record of your employment,” and so on.  Neal keeps faxing them proof, records, transcripts… but they won’t even return his calls anymore, and neither will DAK.  It’s confusing.  What’s going on?  Neal has got to be the most reliable, honest, hard-working man I have ever met.  He has falsified NOTHING, been convicted of NOTHING, been accused of NOTHING… and yet we have this problem.
       I am taking DEEP BREATHS and trusting in GOD who guards the reputations of those who rely on Him.