I wrote two novels, a novella, a few shorts; two novels I wrote launched; five anthologies in which I had shorts or essays launched; I signed and announced two new book series (whaat??); got injuries that I am still recovering from (come on, me, being immobile is so 2006); had my heart absolutely crushed to sludge twice; moved back home with the rents (best. roomies. ever.); made my comic-writing debut; and made some amazing new Tumblr friends that I adore to pieces (one of whom just proposed to me last night. I’m moving to the Deep South, y’all. I hope she realizes that I’ve decided her joke was serious. :p ).
So in short: I’ve had lots of amazing things happen on the professional side, some really awful stuff happen on the romance side, so absolutely crappy stuff happen on the health side, and have had some amazing friends and family helping me through it all. Really am blessed in that category, and I won’t forget it.
Now onto the granular breakdown:
January
- Announced that my two comics “Bloodsuckers” and “Toronto the Rude” had been accepted into Toronto Comics Vol 2. (I got a great pair of illustrators assigned to my stories, too!)
- Midway through the month I took a slip on the ice outside of my house and (though I didn’t have a full diagnosis until November) herniated a disc, got micro-tears in the muscle of my back, wrenched my knee, tore the muscle at the top of my ankle, and tore the squishy stuff in the socket of my hip. Slept for the rest of the month with the really good drugs.
February
- Bored out of my skull at being immobile and ill, I brainstormed some projects with Adrienne Kress. Latched onto “Northangered” and began the outlining process.
- Launched Lips Like Ice
- REUTS Publications offered on “The Untold Tale” and requested it be a series. Scrambled to write synopsis of the extra book, and did so gleefully.
- Signed contracts for “The Accidental Turn Series”
- Announced the sale of “The Accidental Turn Series“
- Expiration Date launches
- Tesseracts 18: Wrestling With Gods launches
March
- Wrote “Northangered”
- Completed serializing “Triptych” on Wattpad
- Did one round of revisions on “The Untold Tale”
April
- Completed “Northangered”
- Toronto Comics Vol. 2 launches at TCAF
May
- Unable to work full time due to my injuries, I moved home to live with my parents, and focus on getting better and meeting my contracted writing deadlines.
June
- Began writing “The Forgotten Tale”, book two in the Accidental Turn series
- The Adult Colouring Book Craze hits big and my book “The Dark Lord and the Seamstress” goes on sale.
- Hope Nicholson/ Bedside Press announce the kickstarter for “The Secret Loves of Geek Girls” and it does astronomically better than anyone had hoped. (Margaret Atwood FTW)
July
- Did the Cover Reveal for “The Untold Tale” on the SPACE Channel
- Fan art starts trickling in and OMG you guys! I love it all!
- Published the short story In, Two, Three, Four, Five.
- Wrote “How Fanfiction Made Me Gay” for The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
- Posted my first audio book for “The Dark Lord and the Seamstress”
August
- Completed “The Forgotten Tale”
- Gods, Memes, and Monsters launches
September
- Started my vlog.
- Was cast in “The War of the Worlds”, a local stage production.
- Announced that REUTS Publications had signed “The Skylark’s Saga”
- Began writing “To A Stranger”, my first fanfiction since 2008.
- “The Untold Tale” ships out to reviewers.
October
- Attended EerieCon17
- “The War of the Worlds” happened, and I realized I was really, really not healthy enough to be treading the boards yet. It was interesting and extremely painful.
- Began writing “Untitled Geek Dating Webseries Screenplay: Season 1”
- Second round of edits for “The Untold Tale” begins
November
- NaNoWriMo: wrote two short stories,one novella, and finished writing “Untitled Geek Dating Webseries Screenplay: Season 1”
- Wrote and Launched “Ivy”, an Accidental Prequel
- Finally got all the diagnosises for my slip and fall. Have now had enough MRIs and XRays to glow in the dark.
- Finished line edits for “The Untold Tale”
December
- Completed and published “To A Stranger“
- Launched “The Untold Tale”, Book One of the Accidental Turn Series
- Launched “Home”, an Accidental Short
Goals for 2016
- Finish a short story for Peggy (so close to being done!)
- Finish the second Accidental Novella (so VERY close to being done!)
- Write two more Accidental Shorts
- Write “Untitled Geek Dating Webseries Screenplay: Season 2” (And possibly 3, we’ll see.)
- Write “The Silenced Tale”
- Assemble all my Peggy Barnett short work into a short story collection, add a few new stories
- Be faithful to my diet and loose some of the weight that makes my injuries worse
- Walk every day, or ride my Recumbent Exercise Bike
Goals for 2017
- Publish the Peggy Barnett short story collection
- Write “The Skylark’s Search”
- Write “The Skylark’s Sacrifice”
- Finish some short stories set in the Skylark world
- Be faithful to my diet and loose some of the weight that makes my injuries worse
- Walk every day, or ride my Recumbent Exercise Bike
