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For me, too.

It even ended on a bitter note.  Kristi and I had to say goodbye to Wiley the day after Christmas. We got him and his brother, Richie, as rescue dogs back in 2009 (there’s a story there but for another time). They’ve been a joy ever since. I’m grateful that I got to spend almost twelve years with a loyal and loving dog, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that those moments of losing him were some of the hardest in my life.

He was a great dog. I will miss him.

His loss, of course, comes in one of the worst years in recent memory.

But despite that… I think 2021 is going to be better. 

With that in mind, I thought I’d look back briefly at some of the good things that happened to me as a writer (and a person) this past year. 

In no particular order, I am grateful for…

The release of:

• My sixth River City novel, Place of Wrath and Tears. This one has been partially written since 2009, so for it finally see publication is a relief. It also marks the first time in this series that I’ve had any sort of collaboration, as an idea from Zach Dahle significantly impacted a major subplot and character (hint: it’s Jimmy).

• Never the Crime, Badge Heavy, and Code Four, the final three books in the Charlie-316 arc that I wrote with Colin Conway.  

• Season 2 of A Grifter’s Song, which included my own episode Down Comes the Night and the subscriber-only bonus episode, The Reckoner.

• The audio versions of The Cleaner and Good Shepherd. I narrated and produced the first (with a two-story cameo from my wife, Kristi Scalise), and the latter has a story I narrated and a pair from Craig Jessen.

• In the Cut, my second SpoCompton novel. 
  
  

• An essay in the charity anthology, Writers Crushing Covid-19, edited by Lawrence Kelter

• A new edition of In the Shadow of El Paso, now including a new La Sombra story, “Long Burdens.” The audio edition was also updated, with the story read by Craig Jessen (who read the other two La Sombra stories). I narrated the foreword and author’s note in this edition.

• The Italian language version of In the Shadow of El Paso:  All’ombra di El Paso.

• Guns & Tacos Volume 1, which contains my novella A Gyro and a Glock.

• Thirty-nine episodes of my podcast, Wrong Place, Write Crime. I got to talk to some wonderful people over the course of 2021, and it was a boon to my mental health, for sure. Check out their work – I don’t book anyone who I wouldn’t recommend you read!
  

Making Progress On or Finishing:

• A dark comedy novel called No Dibs on Murder (as Frank Scalise, with Lawrence Kelter) that will hopefully see a 2021 release.

• The second Sam the Hockey Player novel (Bad Calls by Frank Scalise) which will be out in 2021.

• The first children’s book featuring Sam (Sam & the Magic Hockey Gear), illustrated by Drew Spilker.

• A Grifter’s Song was renewed for a third season. I recruited six great authors in Matt Phillips, Lawrence Maddox, Jonathan Brown, Michael Pool, Carmen Jaramillo, and Shawn A. Cosby. Their episodes are locked and loaded for the season, which begins on Jan 1, 2021.

• My fourth short story collection, Sugar Got Low, scheduled for a January 18, 2021 release. I will follow this up with an audio version, too.
  

• My fantasy novel (or novella collection – we’ll see), Seasons of Wither (as Frank Saverio). At least the first part of this will be finished in 2021.

• A Village of Strangers, a novel that has been knocking around my soul since the very early 2000s. It is now a project on Scrivener and notes have turned to plotting… so it’s happening in 2021.

Some other events that were pretty great:

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  My grand-daughter, Harriet Francis was born. Technically, this happened in December 2019, but she just celebrated her first birthday, so I’m claiming it.

• Kristi and I celebrated our eleventh anniversary. Or forty-first, if you want to count from when we fell in love.

• I was a finalist for the Derringer award for the fourth time in 2020. My story, “The Concrete Smile”, was one of five in the long story category. I didn’t win, but as the finalists are selected via blind judging, it is always an honor to be in the running.

• I was interviewed on the podcasts Naked Monday, Corks and Conversations, and Rights & Wrongs. Other interviews are on my site.

• I got to play a hockey season on the beautiful outdoor rink in Bend, Oregon.

• I spent the one and only day of Left Coast Crime 2020 in San Diego on a panel hosted by my friend, Colin Conway. Luckily, between that day and the night before, I still made a number of fun connections with readers and other writers.

• Wrote twenty-plus posts on the blog panel of 7 Criminal Minds, along with my nine compadres there.

• Appeared on a panel at the virtual conference hosted by the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association.

• Joined Sisters in Crime, thanks to a nudge from Lori Rader-Day.

• Joined Mystery Writers of America. In December, I was elected to the board of the Northwest chapter, thanks to a nudge from Kat Richardson.

• I read some great books, saw some great television, and played some great games. I even got incrementally better at playing guitar.

In addition to the above, I completed an overall writing goal. In 2017, I set a goal to publish one million words of fiction. It took me until 2020, but I close out the year sitting at 1,209,760 words of published fiction in that time period. So what’d I do? Started a new spreadsheet page for 2021-25. The goal? A ridiculous five million words.

All of this may seem like a brag list, and maybe in some fashion it is, but that’s not my purpose. I’ve felt down, dark, and depressed at times during 2020. I’m betting you have, too. By focusing on the positive here at the end of the year, it helps me face 2021 with optimism.

My guess is that if you sat down to make your own list like mine above, you’d have at least as many entries. And if you do, maybe you’ll face 2021 with the same optimism.

Worth a try.

Now, I know 2020 sucked in a lot of ways. But I like to think that, on balance, even with all the red figures on the ledger, the final sum is in the black.

That makes it a good year.

Source: All The Madness In My Soul