That makes sense. Decisions shouldn't be a total surprise, but that sounds like a lot of set-up for one fork in the road. One wonders how much of that could be interspersed in advance vs. explained after?

--but then, if the book itself is on hold, probably not as urgent. (Speaking as someone who has two books stewing on the back-burner, I know that feeling ... sometimes it's not worth trying to force the issue, not when there's so much rework required.)