THE REAL THING
The Substance of Style exists! And I have a copy.
For more on what's in the book, see this brief Q&A interview. I'm busy doing all sorts of advance work--arranging book tour events, working on related articles, putting together an online, alphabetized bibliography to supplement the book's endnotes. (Did you know that USA Today is the only major U.S. paper that doesn't charge for access to its archives?) I'm trying to keep up the blogging, but it will be light for the next few days.