It's Official: I Am a Regular Contributor to This American Life

I just got word that one of my latest pitches has passed muster and will be run on "This American Life." As silly as it may sound, this changes everything. When I had three credits--one of them an interview segment that I was ancillary to and didn't get paid for--it was hard to think of myself as a "This American Life" contributor, and I always felt a little cheesy and liarly putting it on storytelling bios--and, yes, even on this website. Now I feel like it wasn't a fluke, and this is really happening. Thanks, TAL! You've made me extremely happy! Now for my next plan: teaching a "How to Pitch to This American Life" class at MediaBistro.

Oh--since you'll want to know, the piece that got accepted is a modified, interview-y version of this post from an entire Halloween ago (I'll try not to spoil the ending if you haven't read it). It's been accepted for an upcoming show whose theme is "Mistakes Were Made." And bear in mind that just because a piece has been accepted doesn't mean it won't turn out to be unusable, or that they won't scrap the entire theme. (That happened with another pitch I made; it's sad.) But for now, I assume the show is on, and that's as much as I know.