On Earned Citizenship

After a nice ten-day break from the blog, I'm back and getting increasingly excited for the impending publication of Working in the Shadows. Later today, I hope to actually lay hands on a finished copy of the hardcover book for the first time, and will probably sleep with it next to my pillow, as I used to do with new pairs of shoes as a kid.

Right now, priorities include getting together a "book trailer" (a short video that introduces the book to people who evidently don't like to read…don't...