gratitude at the end of the year

This has been … a year. There were ups and downs and nothing went the way I thought it would. Sometimes it went better and sometimes it went worse and the only constant in it all were readers: you folks out there who bought the books and signed up for the serial and answered my newsletters and chatted at conventions and were just there, at the other end of the line, listening to all my tales of anti-heroes and found families and people trying to do what’s right even when the world says they ...