The Line Between Success and Failure in Publishing

This originally was going to be my acceptance speech for the Aurealis Awards, but my wife talked me out of it, saying it it was ‘too sad’. I’d been nominated in the SF Novella and Novel categories. I didn’t think I’d win, of course (though I desperately hoped to), but if you’re nominated you need to have something prepared. And if I had to bloody well speak in front of an audience, I wanted to direct it at the new and struggling authors in the crowd, those still waiting for that first big break....