New Year's Eve Musings

I’m not one given to making New Year’s resolutions as I’ve learned these are but a momentary blip in time, while it’s far better to make and focus on goals, both short and long term. And you can count me in amongst the vast crowd that’s more than willing to say good riddance to 2011.

Personally, I had nothing against 2011. I finally retired from the evil day job, which now allows me the time to start working on several long-term goals and pursue my artistic endeavors. I also lost all the weight I’d been promising myself to lose for years. But it was the setbacks visited upon other family members and friends that made 2011 one of the years that will not be remembered fondly.

So as we close out 2011, I will focus on the good memories with family and friends, put the negative behind me and look forward to a much better year ahead.

Happy New Years
Jon

Preditors and Editors' poll Two

Well, the voting is closed and from the unofficial results, it looks like I finished in 9th place. As I said previously, not bad for a story that was offered for free on Captiva Press and had no promotion. I know the poll doesn't mean much in the greater scheme of things but in the mind of a writer, we take these bits of gratification to heart. So spurred on by that success, 2010 means more output from this writer, including finishing a Christmas romance that's been underway for some time and maybe, just maybe, letting Wolf Mallory make his appearance to the world. We'll see.

Stay safe, everyone.

Preditors and Editors' poll

Well, it's the start of a new year and the annual Preditors and Editors' poll is under way. My short story, Scrooge Screwed, available at captivapress.com, was nominated in the short story (other genre) category. Much to my surprise, since I did nothing to promote the story, it's doing quite well in the voting. My deepest thanks to everyone who thought this little story was worthy of the honor and showed their support by voting for it.

And since most of the country is in a deep freeze at the moment, stay safe and stay warm.
Jon

Hello World!

Please bear with me as I get my blog set up! I'm still deciding on a template (and what to ramble about).

My short story "Scrooge Screwed" is available for free from Captiva Press!