Obligatory end of year post

Well time’s running  run out to do the obligatory end of year reflection.  So here it is on January 1st 2012:

Highlights of 2011

Offline:

• Survived another year of relief teaching – not quite sure how many more I have in me.
• Met several authors who I admire in person at Supanova –Rowena Daniells, Marianne de Pierres, Kylie Chan, Trent Jamieson and Ian Irvine 
• Met my new nephew, who will I am sure grow into a fantastic speculative fiction fan.
• Wrote 40,000+ words of my first novel
• Helped restore my house to its 1891 glory

Online:

• Conducted two recorded interviews for Galactic Chat with Kelley Armstrong and Ian Irvine
• Recovered from a blog hacking of my word press version of this blog
• Read 73 books and reviewed 60 of them.
• Achieved 25,000 hits for the blogging year.
• Guest posted for the ROR blog.
• Wrote a Feminism 101 blog in which I didn’t sound like an idiot
• Got linked to by Neil Gaiman
• Grew my subscribers & held my first giveaway

Blog Stats

25,800 page views

Most popular post = A response to Dmetri Kakmi with 302 views

Most readers came from the United States, followed by Australia, then the UK

 

Tentative 2012  Goals

• Finish Draft 1 of  The Axeman’s Daughter
• Have 2 short stories published
• Conduct more recorded interviews
• Go to Adelaide Writers Week
• Go to Supanova
• Continue to raise profile of Australian specfic authors (with focus on women)
• Read and interview some South East Asian specfic authors

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