I am truly sorry for my long silence over the last months: in my blog pages, I have written on many subjects as they concern me, to do with life, love, occupation, authorship, editing and publishing, that I struggle to think of anything new or original to add; besides which, the subjects that currently concern me so deeply, concern others more deeply; and in this way and that, I am silenced.

It has been my privilege to have and maintain blog pages in which I have written short stories and flash f...