No! You Can't Have That Vacation!

As an author, we write, we edit, we argue over book covers. Then our book is finally on the shelves.

Then we're promoting, and passing around excerpts and chapters and begging for reviews and showing our friends and doing blog hops and whatever else we can think of to get that new book on someone's brain. All the time we're working on the next book that we hope will be a best seller.

In the meantime, if you're like me, you also have a partial football team of kids, a football team of animals an...