Don't Look Down

January has been a very auspicious month, so far. I've had two more stories accepted, to the anthologies The Awakened (which will be published by Dark Quest Books) and By Faerie Light (which will be published by Zombie Sky Press). A good friend who is a very accomplished writer told me that this is the part where you have to be careful, that it's easy to let a few successes go to your head. No fear of that! All I have to do is look at the list of extremely good writers who are contributing to these anthologies (Ed Greenwood, Jaleigh Johnson, Eric Scott de Bie, and Clinton Boomer, just to start) to realize that I have plenty of room for improvement. But, with writing as with anything, the only way to make something out of whatever talent you've got is to practice.

And you know what? It's fantastic to find my work on the same ladder as these writers, even if I'm many rungs below. Nowhere to go but up!