Hey hi hello, my lovely readers!!

How was your holiday season? Survive? Yeah? Okay. Good. I hoped so.

After three days of doing my level best to morph into a couch – reading, mostly, with some TV consumption as well – I’ve suddenly found myself back to desirable levels of energy *continues to drink water out of a bottle and dance around the apartment to medieval tavern music in flowy clothes*.

BUT ANYWAYS!!! Welcome to 2023! Can you freakin’ believe we made it through 2022? I certainly can’t. It feels like I was just screaming in 2020 a week ago. Fortunately, things have been on the up and up! In the last few months of 2022 I got a sort-of promotion at my day job selling happy grape juice, I finished my second draft of my full-length WIP novel, and beat my reading goal of 90 books by 21 (thank you, Dresden Files anthology for furthering my brain rot and obsession with my book husbando).

That all said, I figured I’d let y’all know that I have plans for this new, infant year! Plans for things here, and off-site. In addition to starting my second round of edits on the aforementioned novel (which shall henceforth be known as WIP1), I plan on working on/fleshing out a number of prequel shorts to WIP1, continuing to develop some higher level concepts for WIP2 (the sequel to WIP1), and probably get a little more into the development of at least two other WIPs (unrelated to WIP1). I’m also planning on starting my querying journey here in the next month or two as well!!! SO! Keep y’all eyes peeled for updates on that front.

But what about the blog! I hear you cry. To which I say: FEAR NOT! I’m not going to neglect this little story sketch dump! Even as I write this, I have a fresh little piece of emotional damage sitting in my notes, another sitting in my drafts here (tho that one is a little… mmmm… spicier than emotionally traumatizing :D). I ALSO!! promise that I’ll have the final piece of Dish and Spoon ready and posted here in the VERY near future, if only for my own piece of mind. Not having that story finished has rather been hanging over my head since September. But since I’ve promised here that it’ll be finished, I’m holding myself accountable on your collective behalf.

I also plan (hopefully) to get more into the development, writing, and posting of a longer continued story. I mentioned it a few updates back, but don’t know how much I shared. All I’ll say about now is this: it’s called The Cursed Prince, it’s high fantasy, I developed it for a narrative game dev class, fell in love with the characters, and decided to flesh it out and share it here! It’s more or less completely written (with multiple endings, no less!) and now it’s only a matter of fleshing it out and making it prettier to read. I only hope I can do Moreän, Sari, Vargos, Daer, and Kelnar’s collective, chaotic story justice.

As for the Hero/Villain pieces and other miscellaneous ramblings? Eh. They’ll come as they come, hopefully with more feral gremlin energy and exploding strawberries.

Phew. That is quite the wall of text, something that would horrify an old professor. If you managed to read all that, good on you.

As always, thank you for reading, and please don’t hesitate to reach out in any way, shape, or form!! I love interacting with people about my writing, and would love to start doing that a little more here.

On that note! May your year be filled with success, triumph, joy, and all the little pleasantries that life has to offer! *Uncle Iroh voice* Like tea *slurps said tea*. See you on the page, my dear readers!

Cheers, and Buon Anno Nuovo!

KU