No matter how you design it, or chart it out, things change. This Friday, past the end of  business hours I heard some astonishing news. My joint-publishing partners were no longer a publishing entity.  Partnerships dissolve, other opportunities arise… People move on. And while it’s felt these past few months like I’ve been living in between the ticks of the clock, book-wise, now I’m the one who gets to set the time. This is what my partners have taught me. […]

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