I don’t mind
admitting that it has been a brutal year and I am certainly glad to see it go.
There were
good moments. Some great, in fact! But, at the same time, it has been an uphill
struggle for a better part of the year and with little to show for it.
This year
felt like being stuck in a bad marriage to a traveling salesman: cheap, boring,
with enough simmering resentment to fuel bad poetry.
I
exaggerate, of course. I am a writer. I have an inherent need to dramatize, to
tweak, and then to give it a noir shine…
If I simply told
you that there have been some challenging months where all I did was apply for dozens
of jobs (full time and freelance) and got little yield… Who cares? Everybody
has a period like that. But a bad marriage to a traveling salesman? You’ll
remember that!
So, yes,
there have been lean times, but also awesome opportunities, creative surges,
and hope that everything will balance out in the end.
At the end
of this strange year, I am grateful for freelancing to keep me afloat, creative
juices to keep me writing, and great friends who make the journey so much more
fun.
I’ve pulled
some shorter works from the online bookstores (the works still exist in
compilations). I have reformatted every book and added updated back matter to
all.
For those
interested, there are a few new covers:
I also reformatted
the cookbook (e-book version only) and I think flows better. It is slightly re-edited, but the
recipes remain the same.
The biggest update
has been in reference to the Food Goddess blog. I have created companion pieces
for some of the entries (it started with the piece about butter). I’m still
working on the updates to the blog itself, but you may find new and fantastic
curated boards here (you can click on each image to link to it):
Happy
holidays to those who celebrate and here’s hoping 2015 brings us all health,
fortune, and more joys than not! And the sorrow? Make art out of the sorrows!
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