My membership application to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America was approved today.
This is a milestone for me, right up there with my Writers of the Future win for Coward’s Steel and Analog accepting Flotsam. Those were two of the three qualifying short stories that I needed for membership, BTW.
The third was At Both Ends, at Flash Fiction Online, which was my first professional-rate sale. My heartfelt thanks to Jake Freivald, editor at FFO, for that one.
And for those of you who aren’t familiar with the Groucho reference, he once said that he wouldn’t want to belong to any organization that would have him as a member.
This once, I can’t agree.
K.C. Ball 
Congrats!
Thanks, Alex. All your encouraging words over the last two years have meant a lot to me. š
Very cool! Congrats!
Thank you, Laura. š
Congratulations, KC.
Thanks, Cate. š
Congratulations! I know just how you feel.
Thank you, Mary Robinette. I am so chuffed. š
Congratulations, K.C. I’m still looking forward to that milestone myself (I’m at 2.5 qualifying sales!) so I understand how large it looms!
Thanks, Felicity. I hope your milestone membership rolls by soon. BTW, I enjoyed the panel on women role models at Orycon. š
Hehe! Thank you.
Awesomeness!! Congrats!!
Thank you, Tom. š
Congratulations, KC! We’re glad to have been a part of it.
All my thanks, Jake. š
Congrats!
Thanks, Alex. š
OOOOOOOOOO, do we get to touch you now? š
Sure … but you have to give me a nickel for every word I say to you. š
Way….congratulations! this is big!! BIG!
Thanks, Gay. For just a minute there, I thought you were channeling Ed Sullivan. š
Congratulations!
Thank you, Michael. I am pleased! š
Congratulations, KC! How fantastic. I can’t imagine how excited you must be!
You go, girl!
(I just realized I hadn’t added this site to my blog role or google. It’s there now so I can keep up with you.)
Thanks, Jodi. š