No seriously, it's a brick. ELEMENTS: Fire won Outstanding Anthology at the Ignatz that took place at SPX! I'm beyond a lot of things right now, but mostly it has lit yet another fire inside of me that I will now seek and embrace.

I posted my awards speech in case I won and I want to share it here as well:

Hello folks. First, I would like to say thank you for voting for creators of color. Thank you for recognizing their time, talent, and their voices. This project started due to a lack of diverse creators in an industry built around imagination, and it will sadly have to continue until this industry realizes we're not mere figments of said imagination. Until then. I'll keep putting out bad ass books. These creators will continue to put out bad ass works. And we thank you for your support, because diversity is not just a buzzword for marketing.

Thank you to my wife for allowing me too many late nights, to my co-editor, my entire production team, the contributors, but mostly Shivana for accepting this dang award and reading this thing out loud for me. One day I'll win the SPX lottery!

Thank you to everyone who voted! Thank you to everyone who believed in us! Thank you to everyone who allowed me their time, talent, and most of all their fire!