Labor, value, and a Neighborly Affection freebie on the way

Howdy, reader-folk. If your personal space boundaries are sufficiently relaxed, c’mon in for a hug. It’s really just a big thank-you, but there’s so much thankfulness that it’s leaking around the edges of the letters.

See, it’s Labor Day weekend, and I received my first-ever royalty statement. That’s a crazy-weird sentence that doesn’t make sense to me yet. I write oodles of fiction because I enjoy writing, but the idea of getting paid for it is still novel, if you’ll pardon the pun. (Or not —...