Hello fans,
This year has been a series of ups and downs. Covid, changing states, changing homes, and settling in have all taken precedence over getting new books out. Normally this time of year I’m rushing to do a birthday month. This year I’m going to take things a little slower and focus on posting various things that catch my fancy, running contests, and promoting fun!!!
I’ve decided to join Nanowrimo to finish my Locks novel. The parts I’ve written need to be heavily revised so they make more sense as I go on so I thought it would be a strong project and then that will be the end of that trilogy which I’ve really enjoyed writing.
The Moon Pack boys will be getting some love and I’ll start pushing out the remainder of that series. It might not be until the beginning of next year due to the holiday season. I don’t want to get tangled up with all the holiday books. That doesn’t mean they won’t feature in some vignettes during the month of November.
I’ll be writing baby short stories featuring characters from different books, especially those I’ll be writing sequels for soon so we can revisit some of our favorites. Feel free to post suggestions. They haven’t been written yet so everything is flexible.
CONTEST
To start things off we’ll focus on positivity! The prize for this contest is a $25.00 GC to Amazon or your favorite ebookstore. To enter, post your favorite thing that has happened to you this year either by your actions or the actions of others. The winner will be announced, more or less, by next Tuesday. I’m going to try and give each contest one week to run 🙂
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When I was in the hospital at end of June and my BFF came out with my son to see me, reassure themselves I will be okay and the fact they drove over an hour one way to be there,
My son got engaged and is planning a lovely Fall 2023 wedding and I can’t wait to have a wonderful daughter-in-law join our family!
After years on a huge waiting list, I’m closer to moving into my new digs. ❤
Some iron infusions earlier in the year really helped and hopefully the sleep study tomorrow provides some more answers. I guess my favorite thing is working to correct physical issues.
I am also moving states trying to find a house and cleaning up the one we sold.
We FINALLY moved out of our too small 2BR\1BA rental into a 3BD/2BA house. 🎉🎉🎉
I became cancer free
In February, I became a great aunt for the 24th time to a beautiful baby girl named Grace. In April, I became a great-great aunt for the 2nd time to a beautiful baby girl named Paisley. And finally, in May,I became a great-great aunt for the 3rd time to a beautiful baby girl named Daisy. I will be 51 this month and I am excited about the possibility of being a great-great-great Aunt someday. Crazy, right?
I have been taking care of a special needs girl. This has become my source of income. She is so funny. I am so happy to be here for the family.
Bought my daughter a new house 🏡 in July and now waiting on the delivery of her first baby any day now!!
I was able to spend a couple of days at the coast with my Sister, and my oldest Nephew and his wife gave birth to my first great-nephew.
I guess it says something about my year when the best thing I can think of is that when the guy came to work on my house foundation(so that the south end of the house wouldn’t collapse), he went above and beyond and cleared most of the blackberries that had taken over my property without charging me the backhoe rental fees or for the gas and time.
This year has been the start of my new normal. And it hasn’t been fun living without my other half. The only positive is I moved back to CA and close to my kids.
I am working on getting prequalified to build a house! My first home and I’m so excited! It won’t be until Feb or so, but I’ve got my floor plan done and working on saving money for extra must haves. This year has been a decent year, nothing to complain about finally!
My favorite thing this year was my cow surprising me with a happy, healthy bouncy baby girl! She was on camera & being observed, to boot!
One of the long term dogs in the shelter where I volunteer has found a lovely family at last… He’d been waiting for six years in the shelter…I’m so very happy for him!
A friend gave me $500 towards the computer that I needed to buy. No expectation of repayment.
My eldest started middle school and for the first time ever loves going to school now.
Being taken by my daughter to see Jeff Wayne’s War of the World in the theatre with Jeff Wayne conducting.
Hello Amber, this year has been a big one for me. We started classes in person and it was very gratifying to see my students again.
In the family front, my oldest son got a new job and is moving, my oldest daughter got a promotion with a lot of perks. So I’ve been having a lot of good things happening.
And last but not least, I’ve lost 30 pounds!
I’m most grateful for my husband’s successful surgery and being able to walk, after a fall that nearly paralyzed him from the neck down.
This year has been a tough one.
My son came to see me as a surprise for Halloween in a mask
The biggest thing would be having my youngest son start high school and see him thriving and then to watch my eldest son continue to be successful in his first job.
Yes. When I can’t say but there will be more.
It has been a hard year for me, favorite thing this year has been a family vacation, with Covid, this is the first year we took one of these since the Covid started.
Learning that I’m going to be an aunt again
Earlier this year We rescued what we thought was a female kitten but turned out was small for her age 9 months approximately and surprise 4 weeks pregnant. She gave birth to 4 kittens which we kept one and rehomed the rest. Mom and son are the cutest and he’s now 4 months old and bigger than her.
This year has been crazy, but three of my nieces completed their degrees within the past 12 months. I am super proud of them.
My daughter graduated from Colorado State this year and found an awesome job she loves as a case manager. The best part is that she’s self-supporting now.
I wanted to see Heilung in concert for my 50th birthday. Took a lot of saving and sacrifice, but we had over 8 months after we bought the tickets to do it so we could afford: gas, hotel, food, petsitters, etc.
Joined a 5k marathon and managed to finish in a timely manner.
Renovated my kitchen. Love it, it turned out great
Will there be anymore Dragons of Seattle. I miss all the boys
more time with family
My two grandsons delight me everyday. One is just one and the other five
My favorite thing that happened to me this year was winning 2 ebooks. I’ve never had a chance to win anything!
This year has been for me just normal nothing to big happening but also nothing to terrible which makes me happy. I’m at the age where normal is great!!!
Got time to go to a writer conference
The school I worked for closed down this year and was merged with two other schools. It had been scary not knowing if I had a job. In the end I got a position at one of the schools and got to keep my position.
I stepped out of my comfort zone and went to two live pro wrestling matches alone. I got to meet some of the wrestlers and see others up close as they drove in. It was great fun.
Sold my old house and moved closer to my Kids and Grandkids.
I’m going to a Pentatonix concert November 17th.!!!
My favorite thing that’s happened to me this year is my going to Lori Fosters book signing where I saw old friends and made new ones
My little niece Kyra was born.
Sorry but this has been a craptastic year for me. If one thing has gone wrong it’s been too many to count.
went to my first book signing since covid, was great to see so many familiar faces as well as meeting new ones, was worried my anxiety would get bad since i struggle in crowds but things went great 🙂