I am now published...

I became a published author in my own right last week.

Cue fanfare.

I still have my day job, and probably will for some time to come. My life, at least outside my head, is no different. I live in the same house, I drive the same truck, my kids still look at me the same way...

But inside my head everything is different.

I now know I can do it. I know the story of this little book - not the story IN the book, of course I know that - but the story OF this book. What it has done, the smiles it's delivered, and - without too much hubris - the way it's brightened the lives of at least two readers.

That's what matters.

Oh sure, the mansions and the hovercrafts and the parties where we all fill the swimming pool with hundred dollar bills and swim in it and laugh and laugh and laugh would be grand, but putting a smile on someone's face when they don't have one, that's solid gold right there.

Job done, little book. Job done.