So Long 2017!
This year has been a huge mixed bag for me.
January had a trip to Breckenridge with The Beer Guy, then rats (!), then moving in with aforementioned Beer Guy.
You’re welcome for posting this picture and not a different January memory.
February, I turned 40 and published my first book (The Cardinal Gate is currently on sale for $0.99 – get yours today!)
Look at this magnificent cake that my friend Melissa made for me? How could it get any better than this?
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In March, we celebrated the Beer Guy’s birthday, and I spent a lot of time with friends.
Please enjoy this dramatic reenactment of the Beer Guy’s birthday karaoke, in which I failed to actually get him in the picture.
In April, Alvie Bean turned five. I can’t even with that information, and that was months ago. I also started a new job!
In May, the Beer Guy and I went to the coast, where I started the outline for what will be the Oracle Bay series (due out Fall 2018).
RIP, that necklace whose pendant is lost.
June was amazing. I got to see NKOTB (and I TOUCHED JOEY JOE MCINTYRE!) and then, at the end of the month, The Waning Moon came out!
That is Joey McIntyre and my hand. TOUCHING!
July…existed? I was hard at work on Ruby Blade, got to know a lot of new, cool author friends better, and my mom came to visit and took the kiddo to the coast.
I love this kid like whoa.
August was busy AF. I did my first (and only!) book reading/signing at a local bookstore, and then, courtesy the Beer Guy, had champagne after with an assortment of my favorite local people!
There was also an eclipse and a kittening.
This is my “what? another motherfucking swear word?” face
Alvie with Rupurrt Giles
In September, my boy started school and had his first ER visit in 4 years!
First day of kindergarten!
In October, Alvie started a new kindergarten (he’d been on the waitlist for the Spanish Immersion kindergarten and we got a place at the last possible moment) and the Beer Guy & I went to Puerto Vallarta with his family. I have zero pictures of us together in Mexico, but I swear we were there! Last, but not least, I released my third (3rd!) book, The Ruby Blade (on the best of all holidays, Halloween.)
First day of kindergarten, take 2
This is the only picture I have of us together. I am in it only by virtue of having taken the photo.
Tiny Captain Picard!
November…was kind of a shit show. Presumably good things happened. There was Thanksgiving? And a triumphant return to karaoke after a couple months off. And no one got expelled, and I had my first ER visit in 4 years!
I need a scribe. And a chauffeur. And a butler. And a pool boy.
And now – this year is nearly done. The last 2.5 months have been some of the hardest months I’ve endured in ages. The last 2.5 years have been hard. I’m so, so lucky to have so many bright spots.
I have three books published, and plans to publish 4 next year. I have an up-and-coming freelance business and my calendar is almost full for the first half of 2018. I have a dayjob that pays me in money, a healthy kid who is hopefully losing his first tooth right now, and a patient, wonderful partner who has put up with a lot of shit this year and swears he’s sticking around.
GAH! This guy! (Also, are we or are we not cute AF?)
I’m really looking forward to 2018. I’ve got some big goals for next year, and I’m looking forward to sharing them with you!
I hope your holiday season has been filled with light, happiness, and the family of your choosing. See you next year!
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