A Decade in Review (Plus Award Eligibility for 2019)

In January, 2010, I was dealing with a 3 month old baby and returning to full-time engineering work as a new mother. The furthest thing from my mind was writing fiction. That dream deferred (since college) took on a sense of urgency, though, as I found my time split between work, baby, and household. I needed to make time for myself.

After a failed attempt at NaNoWriMo in 2011 (I hit 40k words before norovirus took me down), I spent a year getting increasingly depressed. Finally, after seeing...