Last summer I took a trip to my brother-in-law’s home in Indiana.  The trip was productive in that I probably enjoyed one of the most restful vacations of my life, but I also spent every evening over the course of a week recording an audiobook for my third novel Come Apart in the incredibly silent recesses of my brother-in-law’s nearby church.

As of today I have edited through only 10 of 42 chapters of the audiobook, removing gaffs and mistakes made as I read my own book in the most careful and exciting tones I could muster.  I have had every intention of publishing the audiobook version of this novel, which is available now in print and on Kindle, but getting the time to do it has been one of those things that was left in the dust.

When I decide to do something, I usually weight the pros and…