I am very happy that, with the cooperation of Houghton Mifflin Company, and the good offices of Ed Weiss, webmaster of pinkwater.com, I am able to offer web-readers an advance look at my new book, The Neddiad. The actual publication date of the book is in April, 2007--it will be serialized here, an additional chapter per week, starting in August, 2006. The complete book will be shown on the web.

What we are presenting is the original author's manuscript. There are some typos, and editorial corrections, and changes by me are not included. So the published book will be slightly different. I am a careful writer, and worked with a fine editor, so the differences are not great, but I thought it might be of interest for some to see what the book was like when handed in.

I'm especially happy to offer this particular book in this fashion because of the roughly 100 books of various kinds I've done, I think this is my best work so far.

Readers are welcome to post comments, criticisms, complaints, and exchange remarks--a link will be provided, and I may periodically chime in to discuss and argue with the posters. I'm also hoping that those of you who enjoy the book online will buy a copy for money when it is published. The book is fairly long, so it will be in print before we finish serializing it here.

Thanks for participating in this experiment. I enjoyed writing The Neddiad, and I hope you enjoy reading it.

Daniel Pinkwater