Sold another story to Clarkesword; submitted my first-ever novel query; finished my eighth year of writing

As I think I mentioned last year, December 20^th, 2003 was the day when I completed (and submitted) my first short story. As such, today marks the end of my eighth year of writing. Last year, I surpassed every writing-related benchmark of my life, except for two (most words in one day and most words in one month). Today’s blog post was going to be about …