Hello Reader, I’m bursting with news, so forgive me if I can’t make it through the first line without spilling it. The book I've been wrestling with for a good four or five years, through eight drafts, has just been accepted for publication. With an advance, nogal, which means they must believe in it. There. I've said it out loud. Without touching wood. (I’ve not mentioned this book this year without reaching for wood and clutching at my thumbs.) Now let me tell you what it took to get here,...