On a more personal note - this is the first time I've pitched my stuff, been asked to submit, submitted, and been accepted and then paid (!?) for my writing. This has prompted a revelation about 30 years in the making. As a child, the standard I held my own dream to was "I wanna be a published author", and going indie seemed like the alternative path, like you had to give up on one to pursue the other. Given the state of modern publishing, I was always happy to give up entirely on any definition of "published" that involves the big 4. But being published by someone else at all seems to have scratched that itch, and I think 5 year old me is fine with negotiating our new goal. That is, that I've got a baby, and not a lot of time, and writing short stories for other publications and collections has brought me so much joy, and I think really brought out some of my best writing. I wanna write more short stories and submit them to cool publications. If you know of any, let me know. I'll still be working on my novels, and I'll always be indie, but I think in the years to come you'll see me pop up in a lot more places with short form work. Just wanted to say thanks to all my buddies in the writing community because there's really nobody like them, and finding them is what took me up a level (from totally unknown to having enough fans to pack out a micro-bar. There are literally tens of them.) Here's to the climb.