Charles Frazier? Where is he?

Are you at work on any other fiction?

I'm just in the very early stages of thinking about and taking notes about another book. I don't know whether this is actually what I'll do or not--that's part of what I'm doing, is trying to decide. But I'm interested in the old mountain resorts in the southern Appalachians that had their high point in the early part of the twentieth century. And I'm interested in the relationship of those resorts, where before air-conditioning rich people would come and spend an entire summer to get away from the heat, and live these wonderful, elegant lives in beautiful surroundings. I'm also interested in where that money came from, which was often from cotton mills down in the lowland South, where people were working fourteen-hour days in 100-degree temperatures. So I'm doing some reading about those two kinds of cultures and seeing if I find a story there.