Dan Roberts is a retired physician and medical director. And he’s also a lover of good writing, a supportive wife, five children and six grandchildren. Early in his medical career, as Medical Director for Presbyterian Medical Services based in Santa Fe New Mexico, he became a flying physician, sometimes landing on roads to staff remote…

I’d been practicing my pitch for weeks, and as I gained confidence, I tried it out on anyone who would stand still for 90 seconds. Then, suddenly it seemed, it was the day of the pitch session at the annual Pacific Northwest Writers Association conference in Seattle. Roughly a dozen literary agents sat behind a…