A Life in Metaphors …

I
recently had the great pleasure of sitting down and reading through the
Advanced Reading Copy of my novel, Girl
in Shades (these are also called ARCs —  a new acronym for me but I have quickly
picked it up and am dropping it whenever I can).

Anyhow,as I started to read my words in print I experienced a curious sensation. Itwas as if every draft I have written of this story up to this point, all therevisions, discussion, re-writes, tweaks, were all in fact a giant dressrehearsal for my...