What a crazy year.

Hardly an original thought, I know. We’re all thinking it. But it bears repeating: what a crazy year.

There are too many events, themes, horrors, victories, more horrors, and metric tons of WTF?! that marked this year to seriously think about addressing well: any of it. I hope, if you’re reading this, that you’re holding you and yours together and finding some calm in the sh*tstorm.

I do have a few author-y update type things.

I’ve been working on a sequel to “Boxing Day.” I’m really happy with how it’s shaping up, and for anyone who read “Boxing Day” but felt that it ended a bit abruptly, well, this sequel will (hopefully) help soothe that sensation of abruptness. That’s the good news (if you were wanting a sequel). The bad news (if you were waiting for the sequel) is that it won’t be finished until likely the first half of next year. Why? Well, I’m working on my Master’s thesis now. That’s one reason. And the other reason is the insanity that has been 2020. Since I’m self-published, and since I don’t currently earn my living writing, I decided extending the publish date for the sequel was the best and healthiest decision: both for me, and for the sequel, too.

I will be offering “Boxing Day” for $0.99 during the Big Holiday Week (or the period of 7 days that covers both Christmas and Boxing Day) on Amazon Kindle. At the end of the promotion, the novella will be one year old, and I’ll be shifting all my fiction-writing focus to the sequel. I’ve run several promotions on “Boxing Day” this year, but it’s time to write new stuff and publish it before I do any more promoting of stuff I’ve already written and published.

I’d like to thank everyone who has read “Boxing Day,” or who has added it on “Goodreads,” or reviewed it. I wrote it as a challenge to myself to simply finish a piece of writing, for better or worse. It’s been fun to meet some new people as result of launching this “finished piece of writing” out into the world. Be careful out there and take care of each other.