Ernest Hemmingway said, “The only kind of writing is rewriting.” Or maybe he didn’t. I just looked it up. It could be a false quote, but I wanted to write this blog post and not waste time verifying the quote.

Anyway, the point is, my book, The Scandalous Presidency of Barack Obama, is done. Okay, well, the first draft is. My first draft. I still have 38 days to submit the manuscript to Bombardier Books, and while it is “done” it is not ready.  Over the next two weeks, I’ll be editing what I’...