This past month has been a challenging one for us here at HPC—especially for me (Dwight). There are times when partnerships work, and there are times when they don’t. I say this because we had to dissolve a recent partnership that, in hindsight, never should have happened. For those who don’t know, the path of independent publishing is no yellow brick road—it’s often fraught with pitfalls, bandits, twists, turns, and, sometimes, the road ends on a cliff. Having walked this road for 20 years, it’...