As another year comes to a close, it’s time for me to reflect on 2024.

At the start of the year, I had planned to finish the rewrite of the second novel in my sci-fi series, The Medellan Conspiracy. Unfortunately, because of health issues, it took me until the end of June to complete the rewrite, five months later than I’d hoped. By then, I knew my beta readers weren’t going to be able to get me feedback in time for me to edit a...