Mobilos, “Fractal Clock”, 2013, via Wikimedia.

A year ago today I published my first post on this little blog – it is about as terrible as you might expect a first post to be – and I can hardly believe that I’ve been blogging for 365 days.

Since that initial post, I’ve published 328 other articles here, including an interview with editorial director Alison Hennessey, a look at the rejection letters received by now-famous authors, and a defense of young adult literature.

I also wrote and published my first novel, which happened on an extraordinarily accelerated timeline.

Then as the result of my work on this blog, I began writing for the book editorial website Book Riot where I published articles on what books to read when life is rough, the creative ways libraries are trying to fund themselves, the trouble with writing in…