This is not review of the major newsworthy events, but a personal retrospective about the year now ending and the changes it wrought upon my life.

I have to say that 2015 has been a damn good year for me. Just about every aspect of my life is improved over this same point a year previous.

I have settled into my new jab nicely. The work is interesting enough to not quite get dull and helping people with their healthcare is not without emotional rewards. It helps that this job represents the highest level of base pay I have earned and promises to continue to grow.

Thanks to streaming services I have been introduced to new musical artists and my appreciation for Jazz, particularly Brazilian influenced Jazz, continues to grow. It should also be noted that the artists I fell in love with this year, Diana Krall and Caro Emerald I have purchased multiple albums because I am all about supporting the artists.

2015 proved to be a fun, engaging, and intelligent year at the movies. The Marvel Cinematic Universe provided new entries into the franchise that entertained and were worthy of cinemas viewing. The Martian proved that SF film don’t have to be dumb to be good and to be massive hits. Discovering Cinefix and MovieBob on youtube has expanded my horizons and deepened my understanding of film and story structure.

Two new short stories sales cheered my artistic side but of course the massive blow-out good news of the year was signing with Will Reeve at the Virginia Kidd Literary agency.

VKA has been a major agency in SF/Fantasy publishing for 50 years and gaining their trust, support, and representation has made a tremendous impact on me. Already we have one novel out of submission, Chris, my short story agent, has been fantastically helpful in getting my short form fiction into the hands of top editors and has been great partner in improving my short form work. Will is great to work with and I look forward to his reaction to my newest novel length effort.

I also finished a new novel this year, proving to myself that I can write to a deadline. (It was a self imposed deadline, more of a drill to practice for when publishers place that expectation upon me. Plotting to finished draft was about 5 months. Not too shabby.)

I remain very happily married to my sweetie-wife whose love and support made everything else in the year possible.

Here’s hoping the for 2016 the trajectory continues.