Image of Aspen, Colorado's shindig via Jon Barnes of Ultimate Taxi.
I think of New Year's Eve celebrations as a giant birthday cake, or a giant reset button, take your pick. Either way, it's a splendid time to enjoy what you've done and build up your optimistic enthusiasm for the New Year. So, if you'd like, share something(s) you're delighted about accomplishing in 2010, and something you're working toward in 2011.
Oh, okay, I'll go first. I'm very proud of the progress made on our NYSinC anthology, which is a big, collaborative project that's nearing submission. I'm happy about the ideas I have cooking for super-interesting fiction/publishing projects, which I hope to share later when they're more fully-baked. I'm working towards completion in 2011 of one novel-length manuscript, submitting two (possibly three) short stories, and making another run at the novel I've been trying to write for years. I'm also hoping to continue my health-ward direction, because I need energy for all this stuff! You?
Allow us virtually to clink glasses and toast to your successes, past and future. May we become positively bored with congratulating each other!
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Happy New Year to the Women of Mystery!
Wishing each and every one of you a joyous and Happy New Year.
Mason
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What delighted me most in 2010 is an event for which I take no credit at all, my daughter's marriage to a wonderful man whom we're so happy to have in our family. I've also been fortunate in selling my novel, Damned If You Don't, to L&L Dreamspell, who will bring it out in late 2011, and I placed a couple of short stories as well.
I join you in your toast, Clare, and send best wishes to all for peace, health and joy in the new year.
Thanks very much for the good wishes, David and Mason! To you and yours as well!
Anita- that's lovely news- may you have ever nicer tidings ahead!
Happy New Year to you all.
Happy New Year to the Women of Mystery.
May your sales be fruitful and multiply.
Happy New Year, Clare! May this be the year all your wishes come true!
And of course, the same for all the Women of Mystery!
Thanks to all our Canadian Cabal (may I call you that?) for your support and all the entertainment you provide to us! May your New Years be grand!
Happy New Year to everyone!
Something(s) I am delighted and excited about:
Actually managed to write a short story, which has always been beyond me in the past. It will be in the anthology Clare mentioned, and I am excited about helping put that together and promote it.
I'm also thrilled to be part of the new Macmillan crime fiction project. Soon, I hope to be able to post the website where all things crime fiction will be available, but it's not yet live.
And I am pleased to have started a novel in a completely new to me genre. Contemporary romance is probably not going to be my long-term niche, but it's been fun trying my hand at something new.
My wishes...well, I have a non-fiction project that, being celebrity-based, is currently out of my hands. I can't move along without approval from said celeb's legal team. Very frustrating, but there it is. In 2011 I hope to be able to tell you all about it!
And for all the women of mystery, and all our readers, who are also our friends, I wish all your wishes come true!
Happy New Year to you and all the fine ladies of Women of Mystery.
Peace, health and happiness to all in the coming year.
Lots of good news here and lots of future plans.
May your best day in 2010 be no better than your worst day in 2011.
Terrie
Laura- That's all good stuff!
Elaine and Travis: Ditto!
Terrie- Great wish!
Happy New Year, and I'm sure your aspirations and writing full find their reward of multiple sales.
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