new year – Cheryl Low

2020 Recap

8 December, 2020 No Comments

What happened in 2020.

Okay, it’s been a weird year and we all know it.
We went absolutely nowhere and saw no one.
I took this bizarre opportunity to let my hair grow out and see what my natural color is, hence the lack of photos of me this year since it was silver/gray. I haven’t seen my natural hair since I was 12 so this is exciting.
I had two horror novellas published, Hellbound in a Hurry and The Midnight Lullaby.
And I perfected my peanut butter cookie baking.

As far as my yearly recaps go, this one is pretty slim. I have really struggled with staying on top of my writing projects this year. I’ve written at least 100k but spread out over 5 different projects. I’m really hoping to get back on track for 2021 and finish some of these stories.

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2019 Recap

16 December, 2019 No Comments

What happened in 2019.

I stopped being lactose intolerant! I don’t have any answers for you. I don’t know what happened or why but I’m not going to ask either because now I can eat cheese again.
We finally went to Japan! Phong and I have been wanting to visit Japan forever and we were saving up for the last couple years. It was amazing! We can’t wait to go again.
I finished a couple more manuscripts and started querying agents for one and publishers for the other.
My mom’s husband, Pat, passed away. This hit us really hard. Pat was one of the kindest, warmest people I have ever known. I got to spend the start of the year with Pat and my mom here in Sweden and made some incredible memories. I am so happy to have had that time with him.
I took an impromptu trip to the states to be with my mom for 7 weeks. It was my first time in Oregon! Having grown up in California and then lived my adult life in Sweden, I was not prepared for that level of moisture. Or the spiders. One managed to get into the car with us on the dashboard. I, of course, noticed it while we were driving and yelled “Holy shit!” scaring my mom who thought we were going to get hit by a car. When she saw the spider she grabbed a water bottle (never losing her focus on the road) and whack-a-moled that bitch.
Oh! And I prepared a novella to self-publish this upcoming year. It’ll be my first go at self-publishing!

It’s been an eventful year. Not one of my more productive ones though. But I got to see a lot of family and friends and do some traveling. Really hoping to get a couple books published this next year. Fingers-crossed!

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2018

2 January, 2018 No Comments

I’ve never been particularly sentimental about New Years but I do love the opportunity to make lists and organize. It’s like each year is a drawer full of the things we did, thought, read, and experienced.

In 2017,

I published my first novel, Vanity in Dust
Did a bunch of writing and editing on other projects
Read piles of books
Wrote a scifi
Put together half a dozen Ikea things
Visited my family in California
Dyed my hair pink (admittedly, I did very little of the work, but I did sit still for a long time)
Visited New York for the first time ever
Went blonde
Turned 30

And what do I hope to put into the drawer of 2018?

Publish the second book in the Crowns & Ash series, Detox in Letters
Read all the books piled in my Amazon cart plus all the ones I run into this year
Figure out how to put screws in that concrete wall in my kitchen
Find an agent for my scifi series
Do a bunch of book giveaways!
Get pastel mermaid hair
Publish a horror
Write at least one more book

Wish me luck! And I hope all of your years get better and better.

The beautiful picture at the top is another amazing photo by Linn Arvidsson of Books and Knitting. Check out her webpage or add her on instagram if you like pretty book pictures in your feed.

/Cheryl