[Wrap-up 2013] I have not sold nearly as many stories in 2013 as I sold in 2012

This time last year, I was telling you that I'd just had my best year ever, in terms of publications. I'd sold another story to Clarkesworld (after a gap of two years), and sold my first stories to Apex, The Intergalactic Medicine Show, and to several anthologies.

This year wasn't nearly so good. It started with a flurry of three sales that came literall…