Wondering what would happen to a family whose child was blinded by babies’ sore eyes is how a project that began as non-fiction veered in the direction of a novel. But since I'd been a freelance writer of articles in such varied fields as healthcare and manufacturing, that meant I had to re-tool. Those writing muscles that were in the habit of producing sentences like, “During a PET scan, the patient’s head is positioned in a ring containing radiation-detecting crystals,” had to be retrained to write fiction. It took years before I was satisfied that Compromise With Sin was a novel I would want to read. Causes on behalf of preventing blindness and serving blind people have been a lifelong interest. At one point I belonged to a little band of volunteers who transcribed print books into Braille. Years later, I had an opportunity to use my ability to read Braille (by sight, not by touch) and write it when I taught the first blind student mainstreamed into an Omaha, Nebraska, high school. I now live with my husband, Timothy, in Austin, Texas, where both of us are volunteer narrators for the Texas Talking Book Program. Inline skating and polymer clay are favorite activities, along with anything that involves my family. Leanna Englert