• Won NaNoWriMo 2019 with a collection of short stories.
• Submitted 4 short stories and 2 sets of poems – 5 rejected, one tbd. (Submitted 1 short story in 2018 – rejected)
• Got about 1/3 way through first round edits on “This Book is a Disaster.”
• Beta Read: Mystery of Orange Hedgehog (target age 10) and some short stories

• Website: 60 posts. (2018: 56 posts. 0 subscribers.)
• Facebook:  420 likes, 440 following, 1 giveaway (2018: 155 likes.)
• Twitter:  329 tweets. 2715 following. 1165 followers. 858 likes. 0 lists, 0 moments (2018: 266 tweets. 2309 following. 1052 followers. 834 likes. 0 lists, 0 moments.)
• Instagram: 229 posts, 355 followers, 932 following (2018: 106 posts. 187 followers. 610 following.)
• Pinterest: Started a Pinterest Board! 1.7k Monthly viewers

• Romancing Rose:12399
• Tokyo Monsters: 2660
• Phobia: 1509 (Version 1:  2353)
• Galactic Stew: 7250
• Apocalyptic Plague: 3465
• Chicken Soup:
  • Dog: 1050
  • Cat: 1118
  • Self Care: 1109
  • Christmas: 654
• Hallmark Christmas: 7127
• Fantasy Humor: 6259
• Chapbook: 3563

Total Words: 50158

• Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
• Shards of Survival by Writing Bad Group (anthology)
• Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
• Rush by Brooke Page
• Forbidden by Erin Crocker
• Nightmares, Dystopias, and Other Short Stories by Christopher Fisher
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• Margo Flint and the Last Soldier (Mapping the Edge Book 1) by Nick Mazmanian
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The Girl Who Could See: A Novella by Kara Swanson
• Magical Reality” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Magical Reality Anthology by Pixie Forest Publishing
• Warbreaker by Brendon Sanderson
• Princess and the Peacock and The Knight’s Quest by C.S. Johnson
• With the Might of Angels by Andrea Davis Pickney
• Beauty is  the Beast by Jennifer Zamboni
• The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
• Snowflakes in Summer by Joshua Smith
• American Gods by Neil Gaimen
• Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
• The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Good Omens by Neil Gaimen and Terry Pratchett
• How I F*cked Up My Suicide by Rabeckah Donaldson
• Short Story: Crimson Mannor by Chris Ruland
• Short Story: Moon Over Tombstone by Carmenn Alexander
• Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody
• Murder at Sissingham Hall by Clara Benson

• Back in March we discovered mold in our house. We had to tear out two bathrooms and part of our kitchen (I lost my stove for a few weeks). We are STILL in the process of rebuilding. The kitchen works and one bathroom is mostly done (just finishing touches left). The other bathroom is a mess. Thankfully, we are blessed with a third bathroom, so we’ve managed to survive okay. 
• Attended WhedonCon for the third time as a vendor. Had a great time catching up with friends, meeting new people, and having a weekend away (plus selling things!)
• Worked VBS (I head up the first grade class with 30 kids and 8 teachers); lots of planning goes into that.
• Took kids to Great Wolf Lodge over the summer. Holy cow, they have an interactive fantasy game you play with wands. You wave your wand around and it triggers sounds or lights from different paintings or display cases. It’s a full blown, 5-story, magical scavenger hunt. Also, the water park was fun.
• Halloween Costumes for the year: Joyce (me) and Hopper (husband) from Stranger Things, Black Cat (10 year old daughter), and Pete the Cat (4 year old son).
• Sold 230 items through my etsy store
• Volunteered daughter’s class weekly since September: I helped kids with writing, forming outlines, and editing. SO FUN.
• Hosted mostly weekly get-togethers, including  birthday parties, Friendsgiving, and Christmas Caroling. Took a break while the house was being torn apart, but resumed when house began reconstruction. We have very understanding friends.
• Sick on Christmas  and New Year’s. Bleh.