Seeing the Shrinky Dink: a #holdontothelight post I hope all of you had a good year as well, and I wish a Happy and Healthy New Year for us all. And there's lots more to come, so I'm hoping for even bigger and better in 2019. I'd say it's been a pretty good year, professionally. I mapped out plans for a whole bunch of projects for next year, including more novels, more short stories, and even a few games.At most of the shows I sold books, though a few like GenCon and PhilCon were just for doing panels and hanging out with friends. I attended a bunch of conventions, most of them old favorites like GenCon, Origins, and ShoreLeave.

I'm not pleased about the total-I usually aim for 300k+-but given the circumstances I can live with it. Which is definitely down from last year, but I lost about three months due to some stupid life-drama (don't worry, everything's fine now, I just couldn't focus to write while it was going on).

I wrote somewhere around 220k this year.

One was a short story for an anthology based on the Masters of Orion video game, and the last one was for the Nisaba Journal and is a prequel to a novel I have coming out next year set in Green Ronin's Mutants and Masterminds superhero setting. One was a short story for an anthology series called Brave New Girls, which donates all its proceeds to a scholarship for girls going into math and science. Two of those were DuckBob stories (see, I told you he'd still be around!), for two different anthologies.

I had five short stories come out as well.

Needless to say, I'm excited to see all three of them out.

And the third is Bones of Empire, the first book in the five-book Relicant Chronicles, an epic fantasy series I'm writing with Steven Savile. The second, Not for Small Minds, is the fourth and final novel in my DuckBob Spinowitz SF comedy series-don't worry, DuckBob will still turn up in short stories from time to time. occult thriller series I created with David Niall Wilson over at Crossroad Press. The first book, Digging Deep, is the latest installment in the O.C.L.T. and UK editions of the third book separately (they were separate deals with separate publishers). I had three new novels come out this year, all of them original works and each from a different publisher-four, if you count the U.S.It's been a little while since I updated this blog, so it seemed fitting to do that now, when I tend to look back over the year and what I've written and published.

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