End of One Year, Beginning of Another….

Well. It finally happened. 2020 is over. There were times I wasn’t sure time would actually march on correctly. I mean. It was just a strange, strange year.

In 2020, I had a goal of reading 150 books. I just managed to meet that goal, reading my last book in the final days of the year. Goodreads was kind enough to provide me with some stats. In total, I read 43, 176. The shortest “book” I read was A Pressing Engagement, a Lady Darby short story (83 pages) and the longest book I read was Gemina (The Illuminae File #2) at 659 pages.

Although. I will confess that last book was actually an audiobook and was just under 13 hours long.

The first review I logged for the year was for Nothing Daunted, the true story of two society girls who went west to teach. This had been on my shelf for some time and I was happy to finally read it. In fact, I think might be worth a reread in the future. And the last review I wrote was for Forever Phoebe, an ARC by CHalon Linton (watch for my review here sometime soon).

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As for my writing…

2020 was also the year where I attempted to write every day and keep track of what I wrote. I say attempt because I failed in the second month. I never did manage to get into the habit. I’d say that I wrote MOST days. In total, I wrote over 142,000 words from January 1st to December 31st. Not too shabby, if I have to say so myself.

On January 28th, I released my first novella, which is connected to my Sinclair Society series. On June 25th, I released the second book in that series, The Debutante. Over the summer, three of my books: Emily’s Choice, A Chaotic Courtship, and My Hands Hold My Story were made available on multiple sites instead of being exclusive to Amazon Kindle.

So. What does 2021 hold? Well, over the past few months, I have been working on the audiobook narration for my YA historical fiction, My Hands Hold My Story. And I did the narration myself. In my closet. That will release about the middle of January.

Also releasing in January (if my editor ever gets back to me) is the second novella for my series. And then, if all goes to plan, book three of my series in the summer. Oh, and I have a short story in an anthology releasing….well, today!

I’m currently editing the novel from NaNoWriMo, which is a bigger mess than I thought it would be.

I hope we all have a better year. Happy reading (and writing)!