The editor of Blind Eye Books has accepted my manuscript, and she’s gotten back to me with a few revisions. I’m reworking the beginning and the end to her specifications, and I’m really excited about what she has to say.

On a side (yet related, I promise) note, at work we discussed this week what constitutes a “threat.” I believe I came across rather heated (ahem) over an issue of semantics (well, it is important to be precise in language). Is criticism a threat? Is a person who criticizes yo...