A year ago I was gasping for breath, making lousy business decisions with too little oxygen fueling my brain, and wondering how—if—I would ever get my fever down.
This year I got to spend New Year’s with friends and family, laughing, telling stories, playing with Tarot cards and Rune stones (research for the sequel to Grounded) and generally having a great time.
What a difference a year makes.
Lots is changing/happening for me in 2014:
- Thing 1 will enter high school.
- We will, most likely, have to move (again).
- I will start (have already started) blogging a book on Cognitive Anchoring (and how knitting is soooooo good for your brain).
- We will be releasing the next What Would Madame Defarge Knit? book (the Shakespeare book).
- I will (God willing and the creeks don’t rise) release the sequel to Grounded.
- I will stop posting new episodes of Just-the-Books podcast in order to focus on gainful employment (!) and still have time to continue writing and hosting CraftLit and the Premium Podcast (doing Bleak House right now… and forever…).
- In February 2014 I’ll start Elizabeth Gaskell‘s North and South on CraftLit. I’ll also have more audio chats with our friend-of-the-show and Victorian Lit/Elizabeth Gaskell professor, Larry Uffelman.
I’m particularly grateful for you being on the weird ride with me that 2013 was. Good things like What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit? and Grounded and Novel Socks, weird things like my 3am crowdsourcing to find a diagnoses after my pneumonia vaccine apparently paralyzed my arm. All of it—glad you were there.
Yeah, it was a weird year. I’m glad it’s past. And I’m really looking forward to 2014 and seeing you there with me.
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happy new year, heather! it was just last year that i found craft-lit and began listening to Jane Eyre. You opened the world of audiobooks to me. i’m a little behind on The Age of Innocence due to the holidays and the fact that i began listening to Dracula and HAD to finish that first. (loved Dracula, by the way.) All the best in 2014 and thank you for being a part of my days. Tara
I’m so glad you’re here, Tara. I always perk up when I see messages from you!
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Here’s to an excellent 2014 all around! (By the way, I’m still working on that Sherlock Holmes thing for you. If by “still working” you understand “it has been hibernating, but has not been forgotten!”
You’ve got plenty of time. We’re only just finishing Shakespeare and slooowwwwly beginning Chaucer. 😉
I discovered CraftLit through my LYS Yarn Cloud in Woodbridge, VA in spring 2013. I never really enjoyed books on tape previously, but I find I am hooked on your podcast. Thanks to you I no longer despise Edith Wharton (horrible high school memories of Ethan Frome).
I, too, loved Dracula, and Woman in White. I just started Dr. J and Mr. H. and am keeping up with Age of Innocence, I’ll hate when it ends.
2013 was a year filled with changes for me and flew by like a sparrow with its tail feathers on fire. 2014 doesn’t look like it’ll slow down either. Somehow, exercise and writing have fallen off the schedule as I too have had to pursue gainful employment in 2013. So it goes.
What I really want to say is thanks for the podcast. I love it and appreciate all the time and effort you put into it.
Funny how our stories don’t seem to be all that odd. Le sigh…
I hope both of our 2014s will be full of great books and easier days (and nights)!