2023: A Year in Review
Dec. 31st, 2023 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerTen Things I Did This Year
1. My niece was born! (Admittedly I personally had no hand in this happening, but nonetheless it must be included.) Nowadays she likes to click her tongue and beam when the grown-ups click back. The big people are speaking her language!
2. Published The Sleeping Soldier.
3. Quit my job at the library.
4. Set out on a two-month long road trip.
5. Hit $20,000 lifetime earnings from my writing. It only took five years! (Okay, ten years if you include the Jennifer Montgomery pen name, but in fact almost all of the money comes from Aster Glenn Gray, which launched in 2018. Like, you could take out all the money I made from previous pen names, and I would still have reached $20,000 in the same month.)
6. Finished a draft of Sage, henceforward to be known as Diary of a Cranky Bookworm, which I intend to release sometime in 2024, although it may take me some time to finish edits, because…
7. I’ve been hired for a new job!. I will begin work as an academic advisor at Purdue University on January 4!
8. The New York Times included The Sleeping Soldier on a list of the Best Romance Books of 2023. This sold quite a number of copies, including, curiously, an unusually high percentage of paperbacks, and also resulted in my third-ever thousand dollar month. Five months after my most recent release!
9. Moved into a new apartment.
10. Got a second cat! Baby Boy was being bullied by another cat in his house, so now he lives with me and Bramble. Bramble and Baby Boy like to play-tussle and boop noses.
1. My niece was born! (Admittedly I personally had no hand in this happening, but nonetheless it must be included.) Nowadays she likes to click her tongue and beam when the grown-ups click back. The big people are speaking her language!
2. Published The Sleeping Soldier.
3. Quit my job at the library.
4. Set out on a two-month long road trip.
5. Hit $20,000 lifetime earnings from my writing. It only took five years! (Okay, ten years if you include the Jennifer Montgomery pen name, but in fact almost all of the money comes from Aster Glenn Gray, which launched in 2018. Like, you could take out all the money I made from previous pen names, and I would still have reached $20,000 in the same month.)
6. Finished a draft of Sage, henceforward to be known as Diary of a Cranky Bookworm, which I intend to release sometime in 2024, although it may take me some time to finish edits, because…
7. I’ve been hired for a new job!. I will begin work as an academic advisor at Purdue University on January 4!
8. The New York Times included The Sleeping Soldier on a list of the Best Romance Books of 2023. This sold quite a number of copies, including, curiously, an unusually high percentage of paperbacks, and also resulted in my third-ever thousand dollar month. Five months after my most recent release!
9. Moved into a new apartment.
10. Got a second cat! Baby Boy was being bullied by another cat in his house, so now he lives with me and Bramble. Bramble and Baby Boy like to play-tussle and boop noses.
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Date: 2023-12-31 05:24 pm (UTC)Many congratulations, especially on 3, 7, 8 & 10 :-)
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Date: 2023-12-31 07:39 pm (UTC)Congrats on the new job and the NYT mention! That's quite an achievement. Also on the niece and cat! :)
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Date: 2023-12-31 10:21 pm (UTC)Er. The cat is exciting too. SORRY CAT. You get an icon!
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Date: 2024-01-01 10:20 pm (UTC)Your cat icon is spot on for the cats in question. Bramble is a black cat and Baby Boy is a brown tabby! (I'm not mad keen on the name Baby Boy, but that ship may have sailed.)
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Date: 2024-01-03 11:05 am (UTC)I hope starting the new job goes well.
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Date: 2024-01-04 10:14 am (UTC)Cuuuute!
Congrats on The Sleeping Soldier (which I really wanna get to, such good reviews!) and the earnings - that's such an amazing accomplishment, as is Best Romance Books!!!
Baby Boy was being bullied by another cat in his house, so now he lives with me and Bramble. Bramble and Baby Boy like to play-tussle and boop noses.
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Date: 2024-01-06 01:29 am (UTC)However, she IS definitely waving on purpose, and will often wave back if you wave at her. (I suspect we may be confusing her by waving at non-goodbye times, just because it's so cute to see her wave.)
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