It’s hard to believe that over two months have elapsed since my last post. I’ve been focusing most of my creative energy on finishing my work-in-progress, the stand-alone sequel to the YA book that’s presently out on submission with agents, and have had neither the time nor capacity to tackle smaller projects. Now that the manuscript is about 99.8 percent complete, however, with only a few minor edits left to go, I can finally attend to all that I’ve had to place on the back burner, including th...