urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2013-01-01T23:41:30Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:486040 2013-01-01T23:41:30Z 2013-01-01T23:41:30Z Nick Cave, "Red Right Hand." We have survived the great beast 2012! Hooray and stuff! So here is my post-game commentary.<br /><br />First, the bad, since there was actually less of it by weight, but what there was colored a lot of things. I did not move to Seattle in 2012. I'm trying really hard. Banks are difficult, and my day job is difficult, and it's all still a work in progress. This doesn't change the fact that by the end of the year, "so when are you moving?" became a question that was guaranteed to make me start a) yelling or b) crying. Sometimes it's really hard to live in a fishbowl, and when I don't have something I really, really want, and people keep asking about it...that's one of those times. So until I say "this is a thing that is happening, it has worked out with the bank and with my current housemate and with my job," please don't ask.<br /><br />I developed a severe issue with my left foot in 2012. It's called "plantar fasciitis," and it basically means "screaming pain every time I put my foot down." This is a problem, especially since I walk both for exercise and for recreation, which has had to be cut way, way back, due to the whole "screaming pain" thing. This is negatively impacting my fitness, which I don't like. I'm doing what my doctor tells me and I don't need help, but it's bad, and it means that sometimes, I walk on a cane or not at all.<br /><br />Now, the good. I went to Disneyland twice! I saw the largest intact Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton in the world! <i>I went to Maine!</i> Basically, through these things combined, it was a damn good year. I got Vixy into pin collecting, which gave me someone to collect pins with (always good). I saw amazing movies and watched a lot of TV, and I don't even know how many books I read. So many books. Truly we live in a magical time.<br /><br />Oh, and I won a Hugo for never shutting up. I make a wish on it every night. (Yes, sometimes I wish on my Hugo to win a Hugo for <i>Blackout</i>. I never said I was reasonable.)<br /><br />Publishing-wise, I couldn't tell you how much I wrote in 2012, because I seriously lost count, but I released five books: <i>Discount Armageddon</i>, <i>Blackout</i>, <i>Ashes of Honor</i>, <i>Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots</i>, and <i>When Will You Rise</i>. I had my first reprint, "Lost", and my first reprint-in-a-book, "Crystal Halloway and the Forgotten Passage." It was a pretty slow year for me with short fiction, but there were some pieces I'm really proud of, like "San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats", and "In Sea-Salt Tears." I finished nine Velveteen stories, which is three more than the six I promised in 2011. It was a good writing year.<br /><br />I'm excited about 2013, in all the ways. I'm going to spend my birthday in Disneyland. <i>Wreck-It Ralph</i> is coming out on DVD. And we're spinning our way around the sun again.<br /><br />Whee!