"Thank you Tania!  I somehow missed this comment you made, but found it this morning.  I appreciate your encouragement and wish you the best with your writing and your water polo days!"

"Thanks Helen and the rest of you for the well wishes!  As far as my experience with the publishers, I'm guessing it was somewhat typical. I finished book in fall 2010 and began the quest for an agent. Indie publishing was becoming a little…"

"Inform yourself on what the brands you buy for your kids stand for. Read about Abercrombie & Fitch's discriminatory, sexist, exclusionary, denigrating, offensive, ignorant and socially inept business…"