2014 started in the best possible way: I opened up my email and saw that I'd sold a story! My story "Lighting Candles" will be published in Issue #11 of Flytrap Magazine, in February 2014. Yay! Then I went to twitter to announce the news, and the first thing I saw was a tweet linking me to this wonderful Favorite Reads of 2013 post, which includes ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning and remembered that it was New Year's Eve. Filled with optimistic energy, I thought: You know what I should do? I should pull out that notebook I got for Christmas and make a list of all the good things I did accomplish this year, to remind myself that actually, there have been a lot, no matter how self-critical I get.Then I ( Read more... )