ABSENT VOICES: The Story of Writing Systems in the West, Rochelle Altman's long-promised book, is now published and available through Oak Knoll Press's website (follow the link). She e-mails me that it won't be available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble until the end of this month. (There is an Amazon entry for it from over a year ago, but I guess Amazon won't actually be able to ship the book for a while.) The Oak Knoll Press blurb reads:

Absent Voices is unique among books that explore one of mankind's greatest achievements: the art of writing. Writing enabled communication by the absent; yet, beneath any communication system, so conspicuous that it is concealed, lies a culture's writing system. If there be no writing system, there be no books, no libraries and no world wide web. Not just a history, Rochelle Altman's work examines the complex unity of writing systems. Absent Voices is a "must read" for all biblical, classical, and medieval scholars as well as anyone interested in the fascinating history of the Western writing system, their origins, and their components that are the basis of the giant communication systems of today.

Also, Rochelle has an article on the "James ossuary" inscription in the current issue of Jewsweek:

Ossuary was genuine,
inscription was faked
I'm an expert on ancient scripts and I'm here to report that the "James ossuary" was genuine, but the second part of its inscription is a fraud.

David Meadows at Explorator is "wondering about the date of this
article."

UPDATE: David was right. Both Stephen Carlson and Evy Nelson inform me that the article first appeared as early as 2002. Evy supplies this link, which dates it to 3 November.