Better Late Than Never!

I came home from the RWA conference in Washington, D.C. two weeks ago and fully intended to post here right away... but I returned home sick, sick, sick! It was a summer cold made worse, I'm sure, by rushing around D.C. like crazy. You're supposed to take it easy when you have a cold, I know, but how could I do that when there was so much to do, so many people to see?

My editor, Joanne Grant, was there. Though we met, briefly, a couple of years ago and we've talked on the phone numerous times,...