Happy new year! (The year turned over while I was writing this!)

So here are the goals I actually finished in 2024:

1. Read 52 books (here is what I read. My top five are underlined.)
   • The A.B.C. Murders
   • Books of Blood: Volume One
   • Chew: Volume 3
   • Dexter by Design
   • Embrace Your Weird
   • Flowers for Algernon
   • Gallant
   • How to Sell a Haunted House
   • Iron Gold
   • Jumper
   • Kingdom of the Wicked
   • Legends and Lattes
   • M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link
   • Necropolis PD
   • Ordinary Monsters
   • Pirate Latitudes
   • Queenie
   • Red Side Story
   • Stars Above
   • Truly Devious
   • The Unlikely Escape of Uriah
   • Verity
   • When Women Were Dragons
   • X-Men Vol. 92, Vol. 1
   • Yellowface
   • Zombie vs. Unicorns
   • Before They Are Hanged
   • Bookshops and Bonedust
   • Eruption
   • The Tale of Despereaux
   • Foucault’s Pendulum
   • The Poison Bed
   • The Woman in the Library
   • House of Hunger
   • Frankenstein by Junji Ito
   • Mossflower
   • The Catcher in the Rye
   • The Icepick Surgeon
   • A Magic Steeped in Poison
   • Heartless
   • World of Wonders
   • Hatter M Vol 4
   • The Messiah of Stockholm
   • Hatter M Vol 5
   • The White Castle
   • Hatter M Vol 6
   • The Last Olympian
   • Ogres of the Lake
   • This Cruel Design
   • Hotel Magnifique
   • The Sisters Grimm
   • The Day of the Triffids
2. Write 12 short stories
   • You can find all of them here: 2024 short stories!
3. Edit and publish book #5
   • I wrote a sequel to my last book. The Stories from the Lake continue. Check out Ogres of the Lake!
4. Win NANOWRIMO.
   • I used November to write a story that I’m not sure I’m going to continue working on, but you can find the first part here: You Can’t Take It With You.
5. Finish 18000-piece puzzle
   • This puzzle was given to me, and as an avid puzzle lover, I was super excited. I had no idea how much it would take. It was broken up into quadrants, and each section took me around a month. So in all, around 4 months this year was spent working on this monstrosity… but it was so much fun (other than the elephant in the top right corner).
   • Look at how big it is! (Check it out below my list!)
6. Part 2 of DND campaign
   • This is the campaign that I’m the DM for. My husband and daughter are the players. We are in Part 2 right now. I have it ready to run, but we haven’t finished playing it yet. It’s so much fun! (Almost killed them last week!)

Everything else I meant to do did not get accomplished. It was a crazy summer, and what is usually one of my most productive seasons, was kind of a wash. However, it was a great year.

Happy reading and writing today and every day!