Since I haven’t posted in a while, we are grossly overdue for a writing update. I’ve pretty much been off the grid in the writing community since October, other than to work on a couple of client jobs for some very understanding people who were willing to work around my crazy schedule.

As many of you know, my daughter was born late in October. She was six weeks early and diagnosed with Trisomy 21 shortly after she was born. She spent five weeks in the NICU and, due to complications with my...