As I begin to type these words, it's less than a half-hour into 2022. Out with the old, in with the new. Or so the saying goes. Yet 2021 was, despite its share of dramas and odd setbacks, a surprisingly productive and rewarding year for me. Across 2021, I had numerous articles and reviews released, several short stories published in addition to my first novel, Our Man on the Hill, which came out from Sea Lion Press in May. Yet, the highlight of my year as a writer came from something published i...