Dear fourteen-year-old Christopher,
There will come a day, really not too long from now if you were to consider things in a scope I know you can't consider them in just yet, when you will be sitting in a high-ceilinged room lined with overflowing bookshelves. You will be reading Dungeons & Dragons manuals on a weekday morning, because it's part of your job as a science fiction & fantasy writer.
This will be far from the coolest thing about your life.
Cheers,
Thirty-nine-year-old Christopher
PS Your straight trifecta for the Derby is Spend a Buck, Stephen's Odyssey, and Chief's Crown.