This post is more than a bit overdue, but I think I’m finally ready to talk about it. The end of 2022 I somewhat vanished from the internet. I didn’t send out newsletters in October, November or December. My social media presence has been spotty at best. And I didn’t publish either of my anticipated novels. I feel that I owe my readers and subscribers some amount of explanation for these things.

My paternal grandmother, who I had not been able to visit for several years, passed away in late S...