World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction!

Good god y’all, I WON!

In a tie with Mel Kassel’s excellent Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake! Mel couldn’t make it to the World Fantasy Convention in L.A., and though we haven’t met in person she had written to me earlier in the week asking if I’d accept in her stead should she win. Well OF COURSE, I said, honored to be asked, but little did I know I’d end up on stage making TWO speeches; one for Mel, and one for me. Kismet that I had her speech in hand! I hadn’t bothered to write one for myself because I genuinely did not think I had a chance in hell of winning, so let that be some kind of lesson to some kind of someone? I had to wing it through a haze of shock. ANYWAY it’s all very exciting and I could not be in better company. WOW.

Photo below courtesy of Alex Manglis, who along with Izzy Wasserstein flew on planes to be in L.A. to support me, THANK YOU BELOVED FAMFRIENDS.