A number of people recently have asked me about the status of my book, Who Do You Say That I Am? Encountering Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. I turned in the completed manuscript to Our Sunday Visitor back in June, but the book will not be published until September 2010. Why the delay? Our Sunday Visitor publishes a lot of books, and their schedule is to release their books twice a year: in the Spring and in the Fall. Their Spring line-up was already set by the time I turned in my book, so I was put in the Fall 2010 lineup.

Soon my editor will be going through the manuscript and I’m sure giving me a thousand ways to improve it. Right now I am collecting endorsements for the book (BTW, if you are a big muckity-muck Catholic and want to endorse the 2nd-best Catholic book about Jesus in 2010 [Pope Benedict's 2nd volume of "Jesus of Nazareth" being the best of course - but I doubt he'll ask anyone to endorse his book], feel free to contact me!).

So now you know!