This was a rough year. The pandemic continues, as does injustice, but all hope for change has not been thwarted yet.

Here are some things I accomplished this year:

• I started streaming again, launching the Tea and Sidequests channel.
• My husband and I bought a house in possibly the worst market ever, and moved in June! This involved a fight with our former landlord, which is finally reaching its conclusion.
• I completed Part One of The Book of the New Moon Door!
• The first Reader Poll told me that the most popular next project was the sequel to Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea, so I started Journey to the Water.
• I left my day job to focus on writing full-time.
• As a birthday gift to me, my friends bought me an ad on the One-Shot Campaign podcast, bringing in a few more readers. (Hi there!!)
• I officially launched my Patreon! I have five subscribers now, and I really appreciate their support.
• During NaNoWriMo, I rewrote Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea and am now preparing it for self-publishing in January. If you missed the cover reveal, you can take a look here.
• I continue to survive the plague (vaccinated and boosted) and fight the good fight in whatever small ways I can.

For next year, I hope to keep this going:

• I want to publish Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea by the end of January.
• Journey to the Water will continue, and likely finish in late 2022, at which point I will start editing it for publication as well.
• Part Two of The Book of the New Moon Door will begin soon, probably in February after Frost-Cold Sea is released.
• I’ve had to put my “big book,” the 500+ page manuscript I hope to traditionally publish, on hold, so I intend to un-shelve it this year.
• I also want to start two new projects this year, one for Patreon supporters only, and another for the blog (with Patreon subscribers getting chapters a week early).
• Lastly, I plan to expand my audience, which means publishing, being more active on social media, and continuing to write.

Happy New Year, all. I appreciate you being here.