How many firsts can you squeeze in a year? A LOT, apparently.

First things first: From my family to yours, a very happy new year. I wish we all have an amazingly blessed 2016.

And now for a proper yearender post.

I already knew something good was going to happen in 2015 even before the year began. In December of 2014, I found this Wattpad post by author Mina V. Esguerra about being an “Author-at-Once” and I expressed my intent to join it. My holiday vacation was then spent editing a manuscript I’d finished earlier in the year, and come January, I was...