New year, new goals

It's been a very long time since last I posted. Much has changed; much remains the same.

My biggest news is that I have finished a novel. It took two years of increasingly intensive labor, but I wrapped up the final chapters in early December, in time to get feedback before year's end. The feedback was very useful, and I've been rewriting. My goal for the next two months is to finish revisions, write a good query letter and synopsis, and identify potential agents. There's a writer's conference in Kansas City in late March that I'd like to attend. Others, also within driving distance, are scheduled later in the year, but I need to keep moving forward.

And I need to begin the next one!