Last Ride of the Year, One Last Post of 2015.

It is now December 23rd, in the year of our lord 2015. There are but few days left of this year, a year where I've come so far. Therefore, I place fingertip to key-space to type this last entry of 2015 into my blog.

Enough of that serious crap.

2015 has been an up and down for me in all from new school plans, trips, job changes, books, events, and whatever else I forgot.

2015 was the year I published Regolith. My second novel in my NOW HIGHLY RATED self published series. (Thanks Cathy for the four star rating on Rising Seas!) Regolith was a big deal for me because this was the first of my series that I wrote where I had very little in terms of actually plotted out material. Seriously, I usually work on things in my head a lot or even voice them out in the car. When I had an iPhone I used to set notes up to be able to yap my fool head off while I drive and then email myself the golden treasure therein. I do really like how Regolith turned out, despite the massive errors I seem to have missed in the book.

This was the year I dedicated myself to NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month. Basically you sit your pretty little can down and pen a novel of at least 50k words between November 1st and midnight November 30th. The prizes aren't crazy spectacular things, but upon completion I did get a coupon for half off a really awesome writing program called Scrivener. If you are a serious writer, CHECK IT OUT. It's really cool and not all that expensive for just the base version.
Anyway, I dedicated myself to writing ADAM in that span. This was the novel that I had on the brain but knew ABSOLUTELY nothing about. NOTHING. Fact is, I just ran with it and made a novel that sounds rather decent. I persevered and came out on top.

Dragonsbane, the once proudest part of my Storyteller War cannon is now out of the cannon and working towards being a fully published novel. Why? Simple.
The story goes that I felt that it was stronger, far stronger, than anything I had written before. I asked my loving girlfriend to read it to see her reaction. Needless to say, she called me and threatened me because I didn't publish that first. It's very good and - ignoring my once thoughtful timeline of shopping it out after Christmas - will end up shopping it to publishers by the end of next year. Watch out, you unlucky agents. Nicky is coming to town!

My first author signing event. That was fun. I got to meet a few new authors, made a few sales, and networked a whole heck of a lot. While the event wasn't super well attended, I am grateful for the opportunity and the learning experience. (I didn't even have business cards. :( So now Jess has strong armed her way to being my official/unofficial manager.)

What else happened? Oh yeah, found out I have an allergy to a certain kind of spandex... While wearing a full body suit of it. Not fun. REALLY not fun.

That's really all that comes to mind right now. For all their help in the past year I'd like to thank the following people and groups:
My parents, Jessica and her family, my author buddy Cathy (Seriously, she's awesome. Go check her work out!), Llendowyn and Ritsukai for their help with Regolith's awesome cover art, the Scranton Historical Society, the Scranton region NaNo group, and anyone else I might have missed. Thank you all so much for an awesome 2015! Let's make 2016 go off with a bang!

See you in 2016! Happy trails, and happy reading!
I want to wish everyone who reads this a merry Christmas, happy new year, and a happy holiday for any which holiday traditions you may or may not celebrate!