mid-January already?

How did that happen? And here I was resolved to be a better blogger this year . . . Well, it's never too late to start, I suppose.
So, a little late, but here are my New Years resolutions:

• more writing
• less freelancing
• more time outside
• be more healthy (re: food and drink)
• more music
• finish watching Buffy
  

I think that's doable. There's also a list of writing goals for this year:

• submit Nor
• write cupcake truck Western novel
• write first novel in urban fantasy series
• outline entire urban fantasy series
• write three short stories
• edit the two shorts I wrote last year

Also doable, if I stay really focused. I'm already partially done editing one of the shorts from last year, have done some brainstorming on the novel, have an opening for the cupcake truck, and am only days away from submitting Nor. So. Here's hoping that this is a year of artistic productivity!
There are several books I read toward the end of last year, but didn't manage to blog about as work and freelancing were both moving at a breakneck pace. To get caught up, I'll try now to just list as many as I can recall and say if I liked it.
Splendor by Anna Godbersen: LOVED it. The concluding book in the Luxe series. So good, with a brilliant wrap-up to everything!
Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Interesting Russian poetry from around WWI. Good stuff.
Persepolis: brilliant graphic novel memoir. She was so ANGRY, and it just made such perfect sense.
The Bestiary by Nicholas Christopher: a slow starter for me, but by the end I was utterly entranced and inspired to do some reading on medieval bestiaries.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman: Just utterly fantastic. Need I say more? I love that man's way with words.
Can't recall any more now, so I'll do the rest sometime this week. I ended the year at 52 or 53 books, which is great, so I'll set the goal of 50 books again for this year.
And now, editorial work is beckoning, so I'm off. Happy New Year everyone, and I'll be back soon!