Home from hols...

...and facing the new year. *takes deep breath*

Okay, things I know will happen:

• Harry will do his HSC.
• Tender Morsels will come out as a YA paperback here in Australia and in the US, and as an adult trade paperback in the UK, in February.
• I'll work at UNSW until the end of March.
• I'll go to Perth in February, New Zealand in March and Byron Bay in May.
• I'll finish the selkie novel (by end March, I hope).
• I'll start that historical novel that I got the NSW Writer's Fellowhsip for—fortunately, I've still got the Fellowship stashed away safely.
• I'll turn fifty—sheesh, how'd that happen?

Things that might happen:

• My collection of YA reprint short stories, Yellowcake, may be out by the end of the year, here in Aus., possibly elsewhere at a (very long) stretch.
• I might be going to Aussiecon—we'll have to see how the HSC business is going around then.

It all looks quite simple laid out like that. I hope it doesn't snarl and tangle and make me cranky the way 2008 and 2009 did.

New Year's res: Keep it simple—say NO more often.