It’s been a year of work. Family work. Paid work from the heart work. Creative work. Stories written in the past have come back, and darn, I think they are good. The Year of the Snake is coming to a close. Shedding fiction is a fun skin to lose, to observe it separate from oneself.
This fall “Alignment” found its way into the London Writer’s Society anthology. I think I can say that Emma Donoghue has read my work now, and I have certainly have read hers. The LWS group has fearlessly marketed this anthology, asked the authors to participate in all kinds of events. And they have found so many local bookstores to take this anthology in. Tuckey’s Home Hardware is one of my favourite places to see it on display. It takes a village to raise a book!
Shedding a story feels great. It’s not about money or fame, but about having space to renew the craft and bring out new ideas. This year, the short stories are leaving–
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