Live, Laugh, Love and Write in 2012!
Kimberly & Dmytry
Last year for my New Year's post, I wrote about how Twitter changed my life, how I found my writing partner and love of my life in 2010 and how 2011 would be the year I published my first book and took my career to a whole new level.
Looking back at 2011 I can honestly say it was as epic as I'd hoped. On New Year's Eve 2010, Dmytry Karpov flew from Canada to California to be my partner and a father to our three little girls. Many people thought it wouldn't work. He is younger than me, we lived in different countries, blablabla. But I'll tell you something…
It's working people.
It's working better than I could have thought possible. We are more in love than ever, and officially became engaged to be married in April 2011. Our love grows daily and I've never known love and intimacy like this could exist in anything but storybooks and fairytales. But it's real, and I get to fall asleep with it every night and wake up with it every morning.
Not only that, but I did publish Bits of You & Pieces of Me, as I said I would in that post[image error] last year. And I published Forbidden Mind (the first of a YA paranormal series which won an award it's first month out) and Lexie World (the first of a children's fully illustrated chapter book series which hit the Kindle top #10 bestseller list in its category its first day out) and I signed with Evolved Publishing and became their Marketing Director and I started working with Novel Publicity to help other authors market their work and brand themselves.
WOW!
Talk about my dreams coming true. I work from home with the love of my life, who also published his first book, Dark Edge, this year. I also get to be home for my kids when they need me. I write and/or help writers full time. I've never been happier!
2012 promises even bigger adventures.
In 2012 we will be going to Canada and I will be teaching writing workshops there. I have two more children's books (Bella World and Maddie World) coming out through Evolved in January and the rest of my Forbidden series coming out in the first several months of 2012. I also have The Reluctant Familiar, Death by Destiny, Myths of Magic, Paths to Power and more children's books planned for the year. (Take a look at my new BOOKS drop down menu button to stay up to date on all my book releases. Also, sign up for my newsletter if you want to be notified when a new book launches. I never share your information and I don't send out newsletters a lot!)
[image error]It's such an exciting time! Not to mention I will be getting married to the love of my life in October in a castle in Nova Scotia if all goes well. Could my life be any more fairy tale wonderful? I think not.
Through all of this I have continued to build amazing friendships with some of the best people I've ever met.
I've never been happier, and my life just keeps getting better. I've never been so excited to greet a New Year.
Happy New Year everyone. Never give up on your dreams, because happily ever afters do exist and dreams do come true.
