"I can only answer the question 'What am I to do' if I can answer the prior question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?'" ~ Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, 1981 I am honored to find myself a part of the stories told in the more than a dozen books that have become Not Forgotten Publications . After more than two decades as a production editor and copyeditor of professional and scholarly books and journals for traditional publishers , I was called upon by a series of individuals to help them bring their stories to life as print and electronic books: A woman who wrote about the life of her first child and only daughter, who died from cystic fibrosis at age six A woman who wrote about her first trip with her mother to a village in what was then Communist Yugoslavia A woman whose father died in 2000, leaving his three children with a novel he longed to have published A woman who wrote to process her gr