So much has happened in a year…

wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve written anything here huh?

The idea with this blog on my site originally was to treat it something like an old fashioned blog and to update it regularly not just with book news but other things as well. The reason that hasn’t happened is partly because i haven’t had time but also partly because of how little time it feels like has passed.

Only a year ago I was, at about this time in the year, excitedly telling some of my friends and family about my books that would be coming out and how I had gotten this chance to collaborate with Patrice and create something really cool and really new. Since then, two of those books have been released, as well as a short story, and I have spent every moment I could working my but off on this project and loving every part of it.

I can’t give specifics but at this stage I have finished writing five more novels, one of which will be releasing soon, plus a novella, all within the Starship Nameless Universe, and the world of the Perseus Arm and the Com. I’ve also (somehow) been holding down a day job that whole time.

There’s an interview with British comedian David Mitchell when he is asked what he thought of the previous year (which I believe was 2016) and he responded: “It was personally adequate, but internationally disastrous.” I think about that quip a lot. I think what he managed to sum up was the odd feeling of celebrating personal accomplishment or even triumph as the rest of the world is suffering around you.

This feels bizarre to say, and please don’t misunderstand me, but 2021 has been one of the best years of my life so far.

Which is not to take away from all the people for whom that is not the case, nor to make light of all the people who didn’t even reach the end of this horrible hell-storm of a year, but on a personal level, on a purely my personal level anyway, I think it’s ok to allow myself a quiet little restrained Woohoo! isn’t it?

Maybe? Just a little one?

I remain ever grateful for everything that has occurred to me. I will update this blog when I feel like it and maybe not even then (oh, I also got officially diagnosed with ADHD this year, another little personal triumph and another reason it’s been a year since I last wrote anything here) I automatically love anyone who ever reads this.

From everyone on board the Nameless, it’s been a hell of a ride, I can’t wait to see where we go next!