Happy New Year! ... and other things

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Back to work - Hannah's Handout newsletter

Phew! November was harsh. I never thought I would actually finish the National Novel Writing Month as a winner, but there you have it, I surprised myself. It's good to know that I could write a rough draft in a month if I put my mind to it. I admit, my November project lacks everything, from consistency to style, but things like that are fixable. Writing nothing isn't.
I already mentioned the things I learned in my last blog post, but now I'm at the point where I'm actually putting them to good use. Unwilling is at the resolution stage, where Jared and Darwin make up, talk it out and clash with George who fights his own guilt over what happened with Carl. Those dudes have problems! Luckily, I have a vague idea how to fix it and get them back home soon.

I've also gotten to know new people who also fight the good fight. I dabbled in ARC reviewing and stumbled upon a handful of really great stories that I shamelessly gushed over on Goodreads and Amazon and I re-read some of my all-time-favorites. I feel ready.

Ready for my own mailing list. *shudder*

I decided on starting a newsletter while drooling over the book cover for "Unwilling". Yes, you heard right, I got the cover today! Now I'm thinking about the best way to do a cover reveal, because honestly, I'm not the most graceful online personality in the world :D Noticed that, didn't you?
I do want to connect with my fans, but it's not easy. There are too many platforms, too much social media opportunities, and if I go by my own experience, at some point it doesn't matter how great an author is. The sheer noise of too many feeds gets overwhelming and you just want it to stop. I'm not a big fan of e-mails, mostly because I'm being spammed by Goodreads and Twitter, but I'd still prefer a newsletter to having to check multiple sites for new content. After all, I can't bookmark all of them and still know who is who and what is what. Nobody can. And I don't want my fans to become social media managers just so they won't miss my ramblings. A newsletter seems like a good way out of that. One e-mail if something new comes up, at most once a month, you click, you read, you're done. Sounds like a deal to me, so I did it. And here it is:

Hannah's Handout on Tiny Letter!