As for myself, I am a winner in the Writers of the Future contest, a graduate of the six-week Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop, and a grand prize winner of the Sidney Lanier Poetry Competition. More than thirty of my stories and poems have been published, and Untold Press published my novel, Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves. A sequel novel, The Dwarf Assassin, was also published. Unlike many writers, I don’t keep a cat because I couldn’t live up to its expectations.