A Pretty Cool Thing

There is a lot that is thankless about this gig we call writing. There are the weeks/months of waiting to hear from that first editor, there are the critiques that come back from our CPs with more red than black ink. There are scary edits that make us question whether we actually *are* writers or if we've just been pretending all along.

There are bad reviews or - sometimes worse - no reviews. There are late nights with no sleep, there is time away from our family when we're on deadline. There...