A happy and healthy 2017, to any of you kind enough to be reading this!
January can be a
time of hopes and plans… all those resolutions we sign up to on New Year’s
Eve. But for some, it can also be
rather bleak and depressing, especially when they feel they have failed in
those good intentions after only a matter of weeks.
Soon, it will be
Black Monday, the most depressing day of the year – at least according to some
analysts, who have actually worked out a mathematical formula for the date. This was the theme of my story, ‘(W + D
– d) TQ/M x Na’ which was a runner-up in the 2016 Cinnamon short story prize,
and will appear in an anthology published in the Spring.
As a result of
this success, I was asked to apply for mentorship by the Press, and shortly
before Christmas, I was thrilled to be told that the proposal for my short
story collection had been accepted.
I am really
looking forward to going through the mentoring process during 2017 – a plan I
intend to embrace fully, and work hard towards.
Sadly, I have
already given up on giving up chocolate, and exercising more. But I have posted this blog, which is a
tick in the box – at least for the first month of the year…
