So I am trying to figure out a backup plan for the novel that doesn't involve having some sort of interlocking co-condemnatory novels with Alric and Skarren, as there are too many issues of timing and pacing, and I have no working title beyond the seed of a year ago And There is Hope, but I don't know what depths of Asian-American issues I can adequately plumb in just a month, though in some ways there is a certain sort of structural appropriateness in the spectrum of ethnicities and careers and political leanings, and so on. This is the stuff that heavy-handed thematic nonsense is made of.