How apt an analogy for the work each of these authors has put in. I don’t yet know, though I’d like to someday, what it takes to persevere through the writing, production, and sale of a book. I’ve had tastes so far of the chill in lonely hours predawn, the icy stomach pit when the Inbox message reads, “Thank you for giving us the chance to consider for publication … we appreciate your interest and your commitment ….”

Yep. I know it takes commitment. The frozen writers I bought books from know even better, and still they smiled. I just hope they warmed up sometime later.