2020 in review - Writing, Publishing and Teaching

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Let's start with the good parts first, shall we?
Here's a list of my own 2020 publications:

• "The Adventure of the Missing Fiancé." The Book of Extraordinary Sherlock Holmes Stories edited by Maxim Jakubowski. Mango Books, 2020. (Mystery).
• "Cardinal's Gambit," LHMP Podcast, 2020 edited by Heather Rose Jones and narrated by Cherae Clark. (Historical F/F)
• "The Rani's Dream," Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives edited by John Linwood Grant. Belanger Books, 2020.(Mystery, with supernatural elements)
• "Inheritance," March, 2020. Haunting Shadows: The Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Anthology edited by Matt McElroy.  Onyx Path Publishing. (Media tie-in/Horror)
• "Class Photo" - Letter to Yesterday Podcast, June, 2020. (Autobiographical essay).

Queen of Swords Press published the fabulousness that is The Voyages of CInrak the Dapper by A.J. Fitzwater and Wireless and More Steam-Powered Adventures by Alex Acks made the finalist list for the Midwest Book Awards.I am so proud of both of these books! And A.J. and Alex both worked their butts off this year, as did I. Here's a list of some of the events and places that one, two or all of us appeared in 2020:

• CoNZealand
• RainbowSpaceMagic (online LGBTQ convention)
• Fights of Foundry
• SFWA Nebula Conference
• WORD Christchurch
• Super Relaxed Fantasy Club (U.K. YouTube reading series)
• Hannah's Bookshelf (Radio show in Manchester, England)
• Verb Wellington (NZ Writer's Conference)
  
• MileHiCon
• Madame Askew's Temporal Entourage Book Club
• LHMPodcast
• DreamHaven Books
• Cream & Amber's Fall Mini-festival
• MultiverseCon
• 13 Gears Steampunk
• Twin Cities Pride
• Glitchy Pancakes Podcast
• The Not So Silent Planet Reading Series
• St. Cloud Pride
• Duluth-Superior Pride
• Columbia Height Pride
• WomenVenture's Women Mean Business
• Quorum's Coming Out Day Luncheon
• WisCon
• Twin Cities Book Festival
• CONvergence
• C'monffluence
• Geek Girl Con
• Pueblo PrideFest
• Outwrite DC
  

In addition, A.J. did blogs and interviews at Mary Robinette Kowal's My Favorite Bit, Cat Rambo's Kittywumpus blog, John Scalzi's Whatever, Helen Lowe's blog, LGBTQ Reads and several newspapers and podcasts in New Zealand. I taught 7 workshops for Cat Rambo and 1 for Broad Universe and had 2 other classes that didn't carry elsewhere. I also resurrected a novel in progress from a few years back and started working on it for my Patreon. It has been a LOT. Oh, hey, and I finished my Silver Moon sequel, Blood Moon, that I've been working on forever. Stay tuned for cover reveal and preorder links tomorrow!

Personal stuff goes in the next post. HUGE thank you to everyone who hosted us, bought books, reviewed our books, recommended them, supported the Patreon and in any other way helped us get the word out about our work! You are much appreciated! Next year will be better, dammit! Hugs all around!