One of the many good things that happened after I was invited not to return to the newspaper business in 2015 came with a call that summer from Kristin Mitchell, owner of Little Creek Press in Mineral Point.

Kristin had a new manuscript from a first-time author that needed an editor. Was I interested?

I considered myself much more a writer than an editor — still do — but at the time I wasn’t in a position to turn anything down…