I go back a long ways. I was born in 1950 and started sending out my stories in 1964. My first published stories were in the early 1970's. In the eighties, I placed hundreds of poems and more "literary" stories, reviews, and essays. In the 90's my love for fantasy and science fiction finally started paying off as I started selling genre stories (which included horror and suspense). That was selling for money! The poetry and literary stories for all those years paid in copies in all but two token payment cases. I've studied under a lot of good people in college and in workshops, two that gave m...