This morning I was reminded of a Facebook page I put up years ago for When Butches Cry (a Goldie finalist) and forgot about. The book is the first, very beautiful edition of A Troublemaker Never Cries, published by Sapphire Books in 2017. I created the Facebook page around the time it launched.

Then I went into a years-long depressive cycle that nearly killed the writer in me until my sixty-sixth birthday when I suddenly snapped out of it. That was a year ago, a year filled with produc...