Year in Review

Yeah, one of those. ����

I queried my novel.
Yeah! I started in January and kept going for half a year. It was an interesting experience, but the next book is not really something they will be interested in. I’ll keep them in mind for my next standalone.I fully edited my novel!
I had a copy edit, two sensitivity reads, and a proofread. (I also had other structural edits, but I did that last year, before I queried.)I formatted my novel!
If you care, check out my formatting posts here and here. I attended Worldcon in Glasgow, read from Immortal Gifts, and caught COVID. Do NOT recommend. Er. Do not recommend COVID. Worldcon was great!I set up my shop, which currently has one product (okay, no, it’s one book in a variety of formats) but that will be changing soon! (Actually, Immortal Gifts is already there but the links are hidden so only I can see them. This is because unlike the retailers, my shop takes your money right now and gives you the book later. I thought people would find this confusing.)Did I mention that I was on the Functional Nerds podcast? (I did! Earlier today!)

So, yeah.

All in all, I feel a lot less “don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya” about 2024 than I did about, say 2020 or 2021. I will say that I feel very… I spent my misspent youth in fandom, and this year has felt like being in a fandom of one or two (bless you, Joy–my alpha reader) and I’m ready to be able to squee about things publicly without fear of spoilers. ����