You poor kid. :-/ For what it's worth, I just reread "The Emperor's Old Bones" because I'm about to make a friend of mine read it, and I'm more bowled over than I was the first time. So however difficult the process I have no doubt the end result will be brilliant.

Are most of your publications in anthologies? I keep nosing around bookstores for your name but I haven't turned up anything yet. Not that that's a reflection on you, these are some really crappy bookstores we're talking about.