Numerology and other announcements – A 2023 Retrospective. 

I should update so I can at least show I used the website. 

2024 is twelve years after everyone thought the world was going to end. It’s four years after what felt like the end of the world. It’s been a decade since Dash-con. (That last one is just for me.)

I will also be turning thirty in 2024! I’ve been looking forward to thirty. In addition to being the doubling of my ‘magic year” it’s also means there’s been one year to a month, which I think is cool. As a child I was described as someone with an “old soul’. If you just rolled your eyes are winced you probably understand that it was probably some mixture of trauma and whatever that drove me away from my peers and toward “adult” interests like reading and sitting quietly. So I suppose I’m also happy to be an age that I felt I was always meant to be anyway. 

But that’s not important.

2024 is gonna be a big year. Thirty is just the start of it.

I’m publishing at least two books in 2024. In the first six months I want to kick off with my series that’s about Tom – a cat who works for the Crown Princess as a spy on the rebel group led by the snake Xyacotal. Or at least he thinks he does. “To Steal From Lions” will be available on Amazon and for direct download. 

The release in the second half of 2024 is more complicated because I will likely be moving to another continent.

Why? 

First let me back up and talk about the back half of 2023. The first half of 2023 I did not enjoy. My enjoyment of things seemed muted. I wasn’t writing. I went to see my best friend in February and confirmed for myself he really is just my best friend. I wasn’t upset by this. I’ve been calling myself asexual and aromatic since 2019. I’m happy with my own company. I’ve never needed another person to make me happy.

Then in July I got into wrestling. Specifically All Elite Wrestling and came to several realizations.

First – Wrestling fucks. It’s so good. I love wrestling.

Second – Love that Danhausen.

Third – Romantic soulmates are real and mine lives in Devon. 

So in 2024 I will be moving to England to be with them. I’m in love with Rowan. I never knew what “in love” would mean before. But I do now.

So I don’t know what I will publish in the back half of 2024. But I will.

There are a lot of numbers in the post. While I can never be described as a math person, I do like numbers. They help me think and organize my brain. And I like the number Two-thousand twenty-four. 

Yours ever, Elaine.