F&SF!!!

So my story, "The Secret Mirror of Moriyama House," will appear in the May/June issue of F&SF. I'll talk about this story some time later, when I'm calmer.

Well. Finally.

I'm rather embarrassed to admit that F&SF was the first venue that I ever submitted. At that time I didn't have an e-book reader, and F&SF was the only SFF magazine I could find at Kinokuniya. And I didn't know much about the genre's markets, and I, I--oh well. Anyway.
Of course I received my first form rejection from them. I got my own address wrong when I transcribed it in English (sorry) and I included the wrong-sized envelope (sorry again) so it took that little rejection slip almost a month to get to me. But I did receive it, my first rejection ever.
This was 2009, the start of a long, long journey that still goes on. Like I've said many times, I very often thought no one would give a shit to what I had to say. But in time I discovered many kind people, people who were willing to listen to me. I still cannot believe how fortunate I've been since I first got published in 2012.

I'd be lying if I said oh my I never even imagined I'd ever have a story in F&SF! Because if I hadn't, I wouldn't have submitted in the first place. I'd hoped, yes. But the act of submitting there in recent years was, to me, similar to going to a shrine to throw a coin and pray; no difference would be made, probably, but I had to try it anyway.

You may be tired of hearing this from me, but let me say it yet again: thank you so much for listening to me.