If you've checked out "10 Words or Less," which you really should do, you know that Dr. Pam Peeke, that never-resting whirl of outreach and authority — not to mention an NYT best-seling author — was a guest a while back. Good conversation.

I hope you've noticed that Dr. Pamela Peeke and I collaborated on an interview, posted just below this one on the blog. There'll be another one, too, when I'm done transcribing and editing the chat for a print version. The following isn't going to be in the edited version, for editor's reasons, but I neither did I want to let it slide completely from notice, also for obvious reason. We were talking about the good and bad things about being an author when she said,