I’ve never won any of the Nimitz Class Supercarrier prizes and awards – Pulitzer, NBA, or Newberry Medal –but I have won a number of smaller ones, such as the Dog Writers Association of America award for best novel and then again later for best nonfiction article (what? you thought that picture of me and my dogs was there simply for its rustic value?).

And my books have been selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, the One Spirit Book Club, and other book clubs, and have been translated into more than a dozen foreign languages.

My short work has appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times to the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. A number of them have been anthologized.

And my kids like me.