I’m feeling a bit melancholy about that at the moment, really. I’ve just made my first sale – a short story, “Delayed Exchange Deferred”, to the anthology Death of All Things. (Preorders are up here!)
And I can’t help but think of the community that was there, the people who would hang out together and talk writing shop and discuss our stories and support each other, and I wish that that place was still like it was when I was there, so I could pop in and say “I did it! I made it!”
But I guess what we mostly do is personal websites and twitter, these days, so hey, a personal website, and twitter. Death of usenet predicted ha ha sob. But maybe I’ll dip my toe in and see if I can get involved in and commenting on the community some more again this way.
So here goes.
(And now I edit this post thirty times to fix HTML errors and the fact that I got the title of my own story wrong.)
At least when you get the title wrong, you can fix it. People reviewing under the wrong title, well. Found only by accident and like that forever. 🙂
Congrats on achieving publication!
Thank you! I’m very excited about it, naturally.
It was one of those stories that felt important to write so I’m doubly glad of it.