Dear 2012: Goodbye and Thanks For All The Fish*

2012 was a good year. I finished one book and started another (and, if I'm very crafty, I'll be finishing FIND ME today, on 12-31-12, literally at the 11th hour...) I got an agent (which sounds like I got a puppy or I got new car but actually means I got a mensch, an advocate, a literary ninja...) I have met some amazing writerly souls and become friends with people I care about a whole heck lot but have never actually met. I've become a better crit partner and beta reader (you'll just have to take my word for it) and I took up running completing my first 5K run with my daughter a month ago.

Of course there have been knocks. I now know how it feels to be rejected by a publisher (spoiler alert: it's even worse than being rejected by an agent.) And some difficulties involving kids/clients/neighbors/family. But that is every year. 2012 for me will go down as the first year where I felt that I had built and was living a sustainable writing life. I do this now. I am this now. I'm not effing around.

So, here's to 2012. Thanks for being awesome (and you know, a special shout out to the Mayans for being wrong about the end of the world.)

How was your 2012?

OH AND WAIT!!!!

On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 I will be revealing the cover to an awesome book, coming in March 2013 from Curiosity Quills Press: THE CHARGE by Sharon Bayliss. How do I know it's awesome? Cuz I beta read it way back in early 2012, and it's the business. So remember to swing by, though it's not my regular blogging day, on Wednesday for THE CHARGE cover reveal!

*Who doesn't love Douglas Adams? I resolve to re-read The Hitchhiker books in 2013...

Happy Holidays

Whatever you celebrate, I hope you celebrate big. Hope you get everything you want and deserve and I hope you spend lots of time with the ones you love.

See you in 2012!

John Cusack Ate my Homework

Here are my thoughts about staying up until midnight to watch arguably one of the worst movies of the last decade - 2012 (alternate title - Oh! What a Merry Apocalypse!)

John Cusak, I used to crush hard on you. What happened?
Doesn't Thandie Newton have better things to do?
Woody Harrelson playing the crazy because Randy Quaid was unavailable.
Oliver Platt needs to learn to close his mouth, end of the world flies may get in.
The Russian oligarch reminds me of Dumbledore and the swede playing the Russian pilot looks like a cross between Dolph Lundrgen and my brother in law.
Did they really have to hire a look a like Queen and haver her leading corgis into the ark? Was the visual joke worth it?

I lost 158 minutes of my life and the will to write a proper post. More later, after I recover.