Year’s Best Weird Fiction is out in the world

When all your projects are long and sprawling and often getting away from you, these milestones become like resting-places during a marathon. It is out in the world and my “Julie” is in it. Ten years ago I quit writing. Six years ago this month I was trying to get up the courage to start writing again, to start finding myself again. And now this.

I don’t yet have my copy so I am rather like a child waiting for Santa Claus. You can acquire it through all the usual channels and even spring for...