Happy, uh, belated New Year! *insert excessive cheeriness here*

Yeah, I know it’s been the New Year (are those capitals really necessary, though?) for a few days now. Five, if we’re being specific. Well, six, by the time this posts. Not that it matters.

Anyhow, I think January 5th (which is when I’m writing this) is a good time for me to put up my New Year’s resolutions post. It is, right? (Not that I need your validation. It’s my blog, after all.) (And in any case, I only just got back from my holiday trip to the West Coast on Tuesday, and I’m still jetlagged and sleep-deprived, so cut me some freakin’ slack, why don’t you?)

Where was I?

Oh. Yeah. Resolutions.

Hang on. I’m going to post a picture to liven up this post. Lemme go find a good one.

I resolve to have more of these in the new year....

Right. Let’s get this train back on the tracks.

See, it’s 2012 now. And not only is it a year in which I’m going to become, and feel (and strive mightily against getting) older, it’s a year in which I will be published.

You can mark that on your calendars, boys and girls. I’m getting published this year.

Was I published last year? Well, yeah. Once. I got the steampunk romance flash fic I wrote for a contest on Calista Taylor’s blog republished on my friend Matt Delman’s Doctor Fantastique website. (Matt’s awesome, he’s an independent publisher, and the dude cares about social justice. You should all check him out.)

But other than that, I didn’t publish squat last year. Perhaps I was resting on my laurels. (Laurel probably didn’t appreciate it, but y’know….) Maybe it was my focus on social networking and longer-format fiction. Maybe it was sheer laziness. But whatever the case, I didn’t publish much last year, and that’s a crying shame.

But in 2012? Baby, I’m gettin’ things done. I have two novella’s in progress right now, and two novels. All will be completed by year’s end. 

Will I get an agent this year? I dunno. That’s actually not even on my list of goals, given the brave new world of digital publishing. No, I’m not even considering self-pub, but there are other ways to go. Small presses are a virtual font of publishing creativity nowadays, so for an aspiring author to overlook them as a potential market would be a tad foolish, at best, no?

I also resolve to find more symphonic metal lead singers bands to obsess over.

So that’s how things are going to be in the new year. I’m getting some long-format fiction published, and that’s all there is to it. Which, of course, means that I have to finish said long-format fiction. 

Excuse me while I get on that.

Oh, and Happy New Year, everyone!

*raises vodka glass*

Cheers!