To say that I learned a lot in the course of becoming an indie author and publishing What Kids Need to Succeed would be an enormous understatement. The lessons from a rapidly and radically-changing publishing field were not unexpected. But after more than two decades in human services, I was an experienced interviewer with an ear that had been tuned to hear what wasn’t being said. I was not prepared for early conversations that took place as the book’s structure was coming into focus. Many of…