This month marks twenty years since I sold my first professional short story — “Rossetti Song,” to Gordon Van Gelder at F&SF. So everything that has happened since then is his fault.

I am profoundly grateful to everyone who has ever read anything I wrote…which, if you look back over those twenty years, includes:

• 47 books
• 8 games
• 7 comic series
• 2 graphic novels
• 57 short stories
• 2 short films
• 1 TV episode

Readers and players, you’ve let me do a dream job for a long time now. Thanks.

Here’s to another 20 years! Or 40!