2019 Year in Review:

• Graduated with my MFA from Stonecoast
• Got a fancy bound thesis for my trouble
• 64 short story submissions
• 3 acceptances
• 2 published stories
• Finished writing that monster of a book
• And a third of the way through edits on the monster
• 40-ish queries submitted for In Blood (the stats are skewing weird on Querytracker, and I foolishly didn’t keep a submission date list)
• Attended ICFA and presented an academic paper
• Was on panels as a panelist at a convention for the first time! (Windycon)
• Also sold books at a convention for the first time! And made back my investment for the table! (also Windycon)
• Volunteered at GenCon
• Read a lot of books!
• Started a blog, which I’ve managed to continue updating on a regular basis for nearly a year
• Did less painting than I did in 2018, but I’ve managed a few (thesis semester ate my art-time, and after that, I was powering through to the end of the novel)

2020 Resolutions:

• Submit at least 40 stories to magazines/anthologies/markets
• Though if I can reach 2019’s stretch-goal of 60, I’ll be very pleased
• Send out another 20 queries for In Blood before letting it rest awhile
• Finish the first-pass edits of the current novel by the end of January…
• …in order to get it ready for beta-reads…
• …and thus, Find beta readers!
• And, depending on how the beta-reads go, start/finish the second-pass edits…
• …In preparation for assembling the new novel’s submission packet
• Start researching agents for the new novel
• Write at least five new short stories
• Start brainstorming/initial drafting/plotting of the next book!
• Get back into painting. I miss it.