Authors are often the purveyors of hope. We are the ones who explore human nature and draw people together through story to find common ground. We are the ones who may offer a vision for a better world, the one we want to see and live in, the one we literally can create in the pages of our stories, the happy ending we long for. We are the ones who may record the forgotten people of history who helped bring us out of dark places, and the ones we invent who do the same for themselves, for their...
