The Journey Has Begun.

There comes a time on every adventure, when you must eventually set out your door. The moorings cast off. The sails hoisted. The anchor lifted. All your planning, preparation, dreaming, anticipation, second-guessing comes to a terrifying and exciting end, and the Expected turns into the Experienced.

It is a scary thing. And most likely the reason many never venture out. We prefer to stay in our comfortable, exciting yet safe zone of dreaming and discussing. All the while, the very real fear of what it will be really like keeps us from actually doing it.

And so it is with launching this website, a very public-facing announcement whereby I am committing that I am in fact, doing a thing.

Much time, effort, and dreaming has gone in to this endeavor, and while the hard work of actually writing the story is and has been put in over the years, the greatest summit - publishing - looms overhead.

But I believe in it, and it is worth the climb.

And I believe the time has finally come to invite others to join me in that Journey.

I have enjoyed the granite support of my wife, Aubrey, over the years, who has encouraged me to pursue this story and to do it, even when I didn’t believe in myself.

And of course, the Glass Poets, my people, without whom this story would not be where or what it is. They are my brothers in arms, and worthy of an entry of their own (you’re getting one).

My dad, my brother, my starry-eyed children who plead to hear “More!” of Anneke and her quest…you all have been with me this far.

And now I’m opening it up. It’s time.

It’s a scary thing, setting out your door. But it’s worth it.

Will you join me?

- Zachary P. Fisk