It's titled, Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting, and it's coming out in November. Florey was nice enough to respond to my email asking for any more info we might find interesting.
QUOTE(Kitty Burns Florey)
Briefly, the book is about handwriting's history, then a chapter on graphology (I felt obliged), then a look at ways handwriting has survived in this digital age (calligraphy, "journaling," graffiti -- but lots more, too), and finally an examination of why it's no longer being taught very much, what that means for kids today, and why it SHOULD be taught, preferably Italic writing, to which I am a huge convert. Throughout all these possibly dry-sounding chapters, I write of my own experience (including my attempts at Italic, even a laborious foray into Spencerian script) and my own background (the handwriting of my parents, husband, daughter, various friends, as well as mine), so that the book is memoirish in some respects, rather like SISTER BERNADETTE only more so.
Sounds interesting, no? Posting here just for info.
Doug