Oh Hello There, 2024

Well, here we are. 2024.

I intended to post sooner but I have been battling an extreme case of existential angst. The best way I can describe it would be to imagine yourself on a cliff’s edge, or at least you believe it is a cliff. Everything below it is darkness. You cannot turn around and run the other way. The only option is forward. Your chest heaves as you take deep breaths trying to steady yourself for the inevitable. Your creativity can’t even get you out of the situation. So you breathe and wonder how far the fall is and what is at the bottom. If you jump, will you crash among the rocks to your doom? Will there be water that you will need to tread to stay alive and do you have the stamina to last long enough to be rescued or find the shore? Will the fall be endless and force you to live in a constant state of expecting the worst that never comes and the agony of that? Or is there something or someone waiting to catch you? 

That is how I have been feeling. All of it. And so, I have spent these first weeks of the new year trying to steady myself. Thank you for patiently standing by.

On a brighter note…

I surpassed my reading goal for 2023. My goal was 40 books and I managed 45!  I will make a post with the list and my top 10 recommendations soon. Stay tuned!

In writing news…

My brilliant editor has wrapped up editing my first novel, Magic in Her Blood. Now it sits idly waiting for either an agent to represent it or for my impatience to win out and self-publish it.

I have been in the thick of querying various agents, and with little exception, have received form rejections to the tune of “not the right fit for me” or “ not quite what I am looking for at this time”.

So far, I am as yet undeterred and will continue to search for one who deems it worthy.

Thanks for sticking with me. I hope to have more exciting news to share with you soon. I wish you all the very best of what 2024 has to offer.