Hello everyone: at long, long last ... my novel is available for the world to see and buy! What is this story? It tells of a mainstreamed kid, who isn't getting along so great in a hearing/speaking-only environment. The school she goes to is something like Harry Potter's Hogwarts, but in America. (After all, there must be *some* Deafs in the "Potterverse", right? And how can the American "Witch City" not have a magical school of its own?) But when she encounters magic-workers who talk and WRITE in Sign, everything changes for the better. It's called "A Handful of Spells", and I've been working on the manuscript since 2007. I do eventually want to find it a real publisher, but in the meanwhile, here is the self-published version: http://www.harvard.com/index.php?/book/a_handful_of_spells $15 per copy, for sale online. OR for those of you in the Boston / Cambridge MA area (USA), stop on by the store, admire the machine they print it on, and pick up a copy in person! All the best, Kimberley Shaw ("Kim from Boston")