A Big Fat Thank You at the End of the Year

December 31, 2010

This has been a weird year.

In a lot of ways it was a bad year. Politics were beyond horrible, work grew increasingly stressful and busy, the crappy economy put a hold on my plans for the future and screwed over a lot of friends and family members, we lost a lot of our literary greats and some budding greats as well, and to top it all off our beloved little girl kitty died unexpectedly in October.

But it’s also been, in many ways, a fantastic year. My writing career really took off, I got published in a lot of dream publications, I found more good literature than I ever knew was out there, I started writing for some great lit blogs and took over as fiction editor at Emprise, I met a ton of wonderful writers and editors and made more new friends than I have since college, I got a promotion at work, and a hilarious little kitten came into our lives exactly when we and our other cat needed her most.

So while I certainly wouldn’t want to live through this year again, I guess I really need to put some serious value on it for all the good things it brought me and the people I love. And I need to thank so, so many people for their love and support and talent and advice and listening ear and just for being as fantastic and wonderful and awesome as they/you are. So thank you. And writers and editors: I can’t wait to meet many of you at AWP next month!

I promise this is as sappy as I get, and I hope you all have a safe and happy New Year’s Eve doing what you love best with who you love best. And I hope that next year is your best year yet.