Wrap-up 2020: Great Writing year; LEss Good Publishing Year

Hello friends. This week marks my 17th year of writing with an eye towards publication. I'm 35 years old, so that's nearly half my life! If you'd told me in 2003, when I was sending out my first-ever story submission (to SciFiction) and counting up how much money I'd make when it sold ($1200), that in seventeen years I'd release a book to astoundingly m…