Life is like a rollercoaster… a box of chocolates… a leaky kitchen sink… So many adages, so little time; and so much truth encompassed by them all. Suffice to say: life can be brilliant, and it can be quite crappy (I used the nicer word there, I’ll have you know). The last time I posted on my website, I was riding a high – the rollercoaster analogy seems apropos here – the highest high in the sky: publishing my first ever novel. Not only that, but it had been lauded as being a stellar fantasy by...