One Year Later...

Reflecting on publication & promotion & phantom siblings

My book, MILK, came out exactly one year ago. I was a mother of one child and about to turn forty. The idea for MILK came early on in my motherhood, just weeks into my breastfeeding - and bottlefeeding - journey. I’ve never thought of the book as a second child. But it is a kind of phantom sibling, who my own flesh-and-blood-child unwittingly conjured a…