It was news to me! I just kind of stared at the web site and realized I am a published author. I haven't finished my novel(s) yet, or had my short story picked up, or even a couple of articles I keep hidden to submit to some publication 'some day' ... but ... after dropping a note to Leigh Michaels (who has been teaching the online course I've been taking for the last month), I got the official verdict. I'm published. I'm actually published.
Where am I published? Online, and yes, that counts as long as it's not your web site or sponsored by you in any way. I am published at International War Veterans Poetry Archive (http://www.iwvpa.net/piercev) and Inspiritnews.com (http://www.inspiritnews.com/James.html). Both of these publications are a direct result of an email I wrote several years ago after attending the funeral of my nephew, James Kiehl, who was killed in the early days of war in Iraq. From time to time I get requests to post it on someone's web site, and I always give them permission. It is the least I can do for James, his family and the sacrifice they made for our country. What I hadn't realized was that in doing so, I became a published writer.
So I spent the day updating my new web site with links, small blurbs on my works in progress, and other official looking details and mentally celebrating that I accidentally became a published writer two years ago and didn't even know it.
Who'd a thought? :D
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