One Perfect Moment In A Writers Life, by Josh Stallings

Q: What single moment of being a published writer has been the most memorable?

A: Not a single moment, but kaleidoscopic moments spent with fellow writers, reviewers, agents and readers. Moments I’d never have had if not for being published.

At a signing for my memoir a woman stepped up speaking softly through tears, “You told my story. Facts are different, but the feelings… The feelings, they’re mine.” 

Crossing the Mississippi river on a ferry, rain drizzling down listening to my wife Erika...