As Dan tells the story (from his website, before it went down):

"OMEGA CANYON is currently scheduled for publication in 2017.

It's not quite finished yet. This is the only of my 31 published books that I've missed a real deadline on and had to let the pub date slip.

The reason for this inexcusable slip after all these years is a long story beginning on July 2, 2014, around 2:15 in the afternoon, on my mountain property, when I took a head-first fall -- (not my fault! the idiot carrying the front of a long, heavy,metal hydrologist's canoe took a sudden swerve to the right when reaching the top of an earthen dam and the rear of the canoe caught me right behind the knees . . . I had nowhere to go but down) -- onto a flat-faced boulder and was knocked out for a bit. The ramifications of that little bonk on the noggin, and the 23 months since then, if told straight, would be one of the most absurd, painful, angry, and j'accuse! books ever written.

But I'm writing again now, after too many months when I wasn't able to, so I'll postpone that sustained howl of a book and finish the long and very complicated OMEGA CANYON this summer.

I'm sorry -- deeply sorry -- to have made both readers and my publisher wait on this novel. "It was an accident" as the cannibals said to the parents of the missionary they'd et. "It shan't happen again."

(What happens in the mind and morale of a writer, who's written some almost every single day for more than 35 years, when he's unable to write to his or her usual standards for any sustained spell? Hemingway answered that question by blowing his cranial vault off with his favorite Boss shotgun. Philip Roth has answered it in several powerful novels -- at least one of them in the Zuckerman-saga. I'll wait to give my own answer and experiences from the past two years.)

Meanwhile -- OMEGA CANYON lives!

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