After two years in the making–spreading a call for papers, inviting essays, writing, editing, revising, more editing, more revising, reformatting, and compiling–I am very pleased and quite relieved that Reconciling Art and Mothering is finally in the hands of the publisher! While there will be page proofs and other details along the way, the majority of the work is behind me and the book will be out sometime next year. Many thanks to my stellar commissioning editor at Ashgate for her unwavering support of the project, and to the other artists and art historians who collaborated with me to get to this point.