Whew! Toni, that's quite a load to be carrying. I can imagine really could explode with all of that stuff happening. The best of luck to you!

I'm dizzy just reading the summary, goodness know what it's like to be living it! If the deal goes through will you still have time for writing? That worries me a little.

Daisy, honestly, it worries me, too. When we first started talking about it last spring, I thought it was going to be a regional business, at best, and that we were going to start very small. Which I was totally up for. Then the partner found out the other people were going to lose their contract, and we thought, "Oh, okay, they have all of the tools already in place, and yeah, it's a bigger region than we intially intended, but okay, we could do that." Then it turned out they had a national contract, which we discovered. And I thought, "Surely, someone will look at my capabilities and say, "Oh, sorry, dear, we're putting someone else in place to run it," which would not have broken my heart. Now, I just don't know. I feel responsible for this going as far as it has, and I know that while I am replaceable (extremely), I would be harming others. My only realy hope is that built in to all of this would be a very good assistant to sort out the gritty grungy crap and allow me the ability to oversee. (And write.) I dunno. Scary.

Thanks, Hugo! I'm going to need it.