This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 500th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

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five hundredth episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

That's crazy for me to even think about,

and even more crazy to think about

because I know so many of you who have either

been with me from the beginning

or who have gone back to catch up on every episode.

Crazy!

Thank you so much for listening for all these episodes.

In face of everything else going on in the world right now it's pretty exciting for me

to reach this landmark especially with the realization that I can look

into the uncertainty of the future and realize that very likely there will come a day when I will be

recording my 1000th podcast and that everything we're facing right now will then be just one more challenge that we collectively met,

overcame, and put in our rear room ear.

So here's to episode 1000.

I was originally going to mark the 500th episode by restarting my video episodes as a special way of officially launching my Patreon page.

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