{"id":112,"date":"2015-01-07T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/01\/07\/i-think-its-gonna-be-a-happy-new-year\/"},"modified":"2015-01-07T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T07:47:00","slug":"i-think-its-gonna-be-a-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/01\/07\/i-think-its-gonna-be-a-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think It&#8217;s Gonna Be a Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(with apologies to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B001LMAKAG\/curtiscchensfree\">RENT<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>2014 was a very good year.<\/p>\n<p>My writing life continued to go well. I <a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/making-book-1024-words-or-more.html\">self-published a flash fiction collection<\/a> in January, went to <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2014\/03\/i-am-going-to-clarion-west.html\">Clarion West<\/a> in the summer, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2014\/07\/i-will-miss-being-here.html\">signed a literary agent<\/a> in July, and started trying to sell my first novel.<\/p>\n<p>Also? <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2014\/11\/i-am-now-associate-member-of-sfwa.html\">I am now an Associate Member of SFWA.<\/a> I can&#8217;t even tell you how amazing that feels. Top of the world, ma!<\/p>\n<p>I continued to be involved with various puzzle hunt events. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzledpint.com\/\">Puzzled Pint<\/a> expanded to twelve cities in three different countries, DeeAnn and I ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/timequest\/\">T.I.M.E. QUEST<\/a> on JoCo Cruise Crazy 4 and at GameStorm 16, we helped our friends in Portland run <a href=\"http:\/\/playdash.org\/DASH6\/Portland-OR\">DASH 6<\/a>, and many of us participated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/game\/summit2014.shtml\">8th annual Game Control Summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DeeAnn and I also recorded twelve <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/search\/label\/podcast\">podcast<\/a> interviews with awesome women who make puzzle games.<\/p>\n<p>Both our cats are doing well, as is <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2014\/12\/i-am-terrible-at-analytics.html\">Food Robot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I got to see the second <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2014\/12\/i-witnessed-orions-first-flight.html\">NASA rocket launch<\/a> of my life in December, and we&#8217;re traveling to our first <a href=\"http:\/\/south.paxsite.com\/\">PAX South<\/a> and our fifth <a href=\"https:\/\/jococruisecrazy.com\/\">JoCo Cruise<\/a> in just a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>2015 is looking pretty great so far. Some exciting new things are in the works, and I&#8217;ll say more about them when I can!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(with apologies to RENT) 2014 was a very good year. My writing life continued to go well. I self-published a flash fiction collection in January, went to Clarion West in the summer, signed a literary agent in July, and started&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-theiinmeat"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}