End of Year Blog Post
What a year. Fast. Quick. Over.
It’s gone so fast in fact, that I’ve barely had time to thank all the people who have made my writing this year so darn fabulous! So I’m going to do that now.
TO MY EDITOR FRIENDS
Oh my, your support knows no bounds. A brief text, phone call or email – and you’re there for me. You share your industry knowledge with me, tell me stuff you probably shouldn’t, and listen to me whinge – not always about writing! You have come to be like family to me and I’m priviledged to have you in my life.
TO MY BETA-READERS
Thank you for replying to my emails quickly, for reading my stories with enthusiasm and giving me such detailed critiques. Your encouragement has been both inspiring and motivating – strengthening my stories and polishing their finish. Thank you. I couldn’t write without you 
TO MY HUBBIE
Thank you for sitting on the sunlounger with your double bourbon and coke, listening to me read my stories aloud. You may think I’ve outgrown your feedback, but I still listen to every word, even if it is about Disney flipper movements!
TO MY CHILDREN
Although you’re not old enough to read this, I want to thank you anyway. You’ve come to understand Mummy & the computer, Mummy & the books, Mummy & the ‘just-a-minute’ that often becomes many minutes indeed. Thank you for your growing patience with my trying-to-balance-everything cramming, and all the hugs too. I love you.
FINALLY – TO ALL THE NICE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
Nice people are often easy targets, scapegoats for others’ internal angst (the niceness makes it easy). But I appreciate your bravery in staying nice anyway. Carry on. Don’t doubt yourself. The other nice people in the world will soon track you down and befriend you. I’ll track you down. Wait – you’re already here!
Writing means exposing yourself, but so too does life. It won’t always pay off. But mostly it will. So I hope you will all continue to open yourselves up. Just keep those you love close, and stay away from those who don’t matter.
In 2013, I look forward to sharing more of my writing life with you. I hope so too will you, all the while staying nice 
