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2021: A Year in Review
Dec. 31st, 2021 07:27 amTen Things I Did This Year
1. This is not something I did per se, but last January my roommate Julie adopted a black cat named Finley. He is a fuzzy little menace and we love him.
2. Published my anthology stories, The Mating Call of the Teleporting Warbler and Care and Feeding, as standalones. “Care and Feeding” became a #1 Amazon New Release in its category “30-minute LGBT Short Reads,” on a day when it sold, IIRC, 14 copies, so mainly this tells us that 30-minute LGBT short reads are not big sellers, but NONETHELESS.
3. Got vaccinated for Covid. The vaccination reached its full strength by Memorial Day, which means that the year has felt neatly bisected into two years (or possibly that 2020 lasted till May) and I keep thinking things happened last year when in fact they happened in March.
4. Published Enemies to Lovers.
5. Sailing lessons!
6. Moved into House! We occasionally call it the Storybook Cottage, because it looks indeed like a storybook cottage with its high slanting roof, but mostly it’s just House. (Finley loves House, by the way. We were afraid he wouldn’t take to the move but in fact he seems to feel that we are at last providing him with the lifestyle to which he had become accustomed.)
7. Published The Larks Still Bravely Singing, which resulted in my first thousand dollar royalty month!
8. Failed to finish a draft of Sleeping Beauty. Better to fail with magnificent ambition than achieve a lily-livered success?
9. Bought a new laptop. One of my goals when I started up the Aster Glenn Gray penname was “pay for my next laptop using my royalties.” I did not foresee that I would pay for that laptop with A SINGLE MONTH’S royalties but that was certainly nice.
10. Completed a rough draft of the Depression Era tramps book.
1. This is not something I did per se, but last January my roommate Julie adopted a black cat named Finley. He is a fuzzy little menace and we love him.
2. Published my anthology stories, The Mating Call of the Teleporting Warbler and Care and Feeding, as standalones. “Care and Feeding” became a #1 Amazon New Release in its category “30-minute LGBT Short Reads,” on a day when it sold, IIRC, 14 copies, so mainly this tells us that 30-minute LGBT short reads are not big sellers, but NONETHELESS.
3. Got vaccinated for Covid. The vaccination reached its full strength by Memorial Day, which means that the year has felt neatly bisected into two years (or possibly that 2020 lasted till May) and I keep thinking things happened last year when in fact they happened in March.
4. Published Enemies to Lovers.
5. Sailing lessons!
6. Moved into House! We occasionally call it the Storybook Cottage, because it looks indeed like a storybook cottage with its high slanting roof, but mostly it’s just House. (Finley loves House, by the way. We were afraid he wouldn’t take to the move but in fact he seems to feel that we are at last providing him with the lifestyle to which he had become accustomed.)
7. Published The Larks Still Bravely Singing, which resulted in my first thousand dollar royalty month!
8. Failed to finish a draft of Sleeping Beauty. Better to fail with magnificent ambition than achieve a lily-livered success?
9. Bought a new laptop. One of my goals when I started up the Aster Glenn Gray penname was “pay for my next laptop using my royalties.” I did not foresee that I would pay for that laptop with A SINGLE MONTH’S royalties but that was certainly nice.
10. Completed a rough draft of the Depression Era tramps book.
