Impostor Syndrome – Reflections

For years I avoided going to and teaching at writer conferences because I didn’t think I was good enough and that me getting a contract with a publisher on my first novel was just dumb luck. I was so terrified to be around other, more experienced writers because I feared they would find out that I was just pretending to be something I wasn’t. That maybe I wasn’t very good and just got lucky.

Fast forward 15 years and over 25 novels, and just as many novellas and short stories later. I fo...