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osprey_archer) wrote2020-12-31 07:54 am
osprey_archer) wrote2020-12-31 07:54 am
2020: A Year in Review
Ten Things I Did This Year
1. Survived a global pandemic. High five, everyone! If you are reading this, we all made it!
2. Published The Threefold Tie in April.
3. Published The Time-Traveling Popcorn Ball in June. I actually wrote this children’s fantasy in October 2013, and just revised it a bit during lockdown before unleashing it on the world. Not a big moneyspinner (last month I was quite pleased to realize it had made back the cost of its cover), but I’m glad to have it out in the world where it can bring joy to the readers who do find it.
4. Attended a Black Lives Matter protest in June.
5. Published Honeytrap in September.
6. Maid of Honor at a friend’s wedding. I realize this was not a wise thing to do in the year of our lord 2020, and that it was only by the grace of God that the wedding did not become a super-spreader event, etc. etc., so I have mixed feelings: on the one hand, not wise, but on the other hand I was so glad to be there for her and so honored to be chosen.
7. Contributed stories to two charity anthologies, His Magical Pet and Her Magical Pet. (I include links because there was some rigmarole with Amazon that meant at least one of the links died for a while.)
8. Set up a regular monthly Zoom meeting with a group of friends. I’m particularly proud of this because two of the three members are people who were hard to keep in touch with even before the pandemic. I’m really hoping we can keep up this regular Zoom even after the pandemic is over.
9. Finished a draft of David and Robert... unless I end up deciding that draft is only the first half of the book… but, anyway, it’s been kind of hard to write this year (I realize that it sounds weird to say that when I’ve published three books this year, but they were all written before the pandemic), so I’m glad to have finished something, if only provisionally.
10. Did a Q&A session at a Zoom book discussion about one of my books, The Wolf and the Girl. This was my first ever author event, so that was pretty thrilling! And I’ve got another one coming up in January, about Honeytrap - I’ll share more details closer to time.
1. Survived a global pandemic. High five, everyone! If you are reading this, we all made it!
2. Published The Threefold Tie in April.
3. Published The Time-Traveling Popcorn Ball in June. I actually wrote this children’s fantasy in October 2013, and just revised it a bit during lockdown before unleashing it on the world. Not a big moneyspinner (last month I was quite pleased to realize it had made back the cost of its cover), but I’m glad to have it out in the world where it can bring joy to the readers who do find it.
4. Attended a Black Lives Matter protest in June.
5. Published Honeytrap in September.
6. Maid of Honor at a friend’s wedding. I realize this was not a wise thing to do in the year of our lord 2020, and that it was only by the grace of God that the wedding did not become a super-spreader event, etc. etc., so I have mixed feelings: on the one hand, not wise, but on the other hand I was so glad to be there for her and so honored to be chosen.
7. Contributed stories to two charity anthologies, His Magical Pet and Her Magical Pet. (I include links because there was some rigmarole with Amazon that meant at least one of the links died for a while.)
8. Set up a regular monthly Zoom meeting with a group of friends. I’m particularly proud of this because two of the three members are people who were hard to keep in touch with even before the pandemic. I’m really hoping we can keep up this regular Zoom even after the pandemic is over.
9. Finished a draft of David and Robert... unless I end up deciding that draft is only the first half of the book… but, anyway, it’s been kind of hard to write this year (I realize that it sounds weird to say that when I’ve published three books this year, but they were all written before the pandemic), so I’m glad to have finished something, if only provisionally.
10. Did a Q&A session at a Zoom book discussion about one of my books, The Wolf and the Girl. This was my first ever author event, so that was pretty thrilling! And I’ve got another one coming up in January, about Honeytrap - I’ll share more details closer to time.