One Brick at a Time

Well, 2009 has been quite a year. Unlike pretty much all of my local friends, my 2009 didn’t suck. In fact, it was the best year I’ve had in ages, despite a brief moment when it looked like 2 of my family might have cancer (they didn’t, thank goodness). In fact, my year has been so enjoyable, I feel almost guilty writing about it.

The year couldn’t have started in a better fashion – on January 5th 2009 I joined the team at Angry Robot. The new job has coloured my year, and has been instrumental in making it such a good one for me. I met a bunch of great new people – writers, bloggers, artists, editors, publishers. I went to a host of events – book launches, EasterCon, FantasyCon, BristolCon, WorldCon in Montreal. And I helped publish a bunch of books by some of the most talented writers around. It’s ridiculous – this is what I should have been doing years ago. So, thanks go to Chris and Marco at Angry Robot for taking a chance on me – it seems to have paid off for everyone, so that’s good.

That was 2009.

As for 2010 – a few small resolutions are in order, I think.

• I want to lose a stone in the next 3 months.
• I want to read more books written by mates (and I have some lined up on my TBR shelves already).
• I want to update this blog on a more regular basis, and also blog more for SFX.
• I want to find time to write more – a simple target of 1,000 words of fiction per week, at least initially.
• I want to sell a short story by the end of April.

That’s it. All fairly easy to do (apart from the first, which is a bit more challenging). There are a few work-related ones, too, but they’ll be on my annual appraisal, rather than on here, I think…

My Annual Hub awards will be in this week’s Hub (issue 108,I think) and I’ll also have a Best Of thing on the Angry Robot blog next week.

Oh, and Happy New Year! Whatever your 2009 was like, here’s to 2010 being better!

I love what you’ve done with your hair, by the way. You look great – do you work out?