Paperback size, 325 pp. The editors at Createspace started working on it this morning. A professional artist will touch up the cover but I like it just about as is . . .
This books tells the full but never before completely-told story of Hollywood's greatest actress during its golden era. Lots and lots of trains ("When I played a spy who shoots someone, or appeared in a movie set on a train, it was a hit. So we did lots of movies where I shot someone on a train."), including toy trains (she had two sons and a husband and father-in-law who were all crazy about trains.
Unfortunately it will be sometime in January before it is available. It will take two months for the editors to turn around the manuscript, and have to wait until I get my Train of Tomorrow from Scott Mann, which I understand 3rd Rail will ship in December: One of Veranda's greatest movies, Rough Track (Richard Widmark, Veranda Turbine, Trevor Howard), a heist movie made in 1953, took place almost entirely on the Train of Tomorrow, and I need to take pictures of mine for the photo of the ToT I want to have in the book.
Oh, and I'm rather proud of the cover. I drew it myself. It is not a reprocessed photo.
You losing interest in trains and going for Hollywood starlets now? 
Wish I could accomplish just 1/4 of what you do, I'd be thrilled. Now that I'm retired, it seems like I get less and less done every day! I have become a great putter'er (or would that be putz) though, and I enjoy every minute of it. 
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