Uncle Scotchy & The Time Thief is coming out. There’s a full list of things that still have to happen to get this book — and everything it stands for — out into the world the right way.

If you gave to The Great Blues Opera Fundraiser, I thank you infinitely. That campaign is going towards writing and developing the new, theatrical version of The Blues Opera.

Here’s exactly what this covers:

• $250 — Cover art

• $400 — Interior layout

• $1,200 — “The Time Thief Was Here” marketing campaign

• $800 — PR person

• $500 — Filing The Egg Project, a nonprofit in my mother Sande’s name to support children of Alzheimer’s patients

• $850 — Shared printing costs

Total: $4,000

No padding, no mystery — this is what it takes to get the book into the world and to start turning this story into something that helps other families too.

This book is a very Miami, Cuban and Jewish, sacred and profane, blues and Alzheimer’s, a son’s memoir and a demon folktale. If it’s meant something to you — through The Blues Opera, through everything that came before this — thank you. This is the next chapter. Help me get it there.

The Next Chapter

The Great Blues Opera Fundraiser - The Next Chapter!!!