{"id":4,"date":"2019-01-01T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T01:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/?p=4"},"modified":"2019-01-01T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T02:12:16","slug":"what-i-did-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2019\/01\/01\/what-i-did-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Did in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it&#8217;s time to take stock of what&#8217;s happened in my life over the last twelve months, both professionally and personally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, I had two fiction stories published:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Go, Space Racer!&#8221;<\/strong> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playboy.com\/read\/playboy-fiction-go-space-racer-1\"><em>Playboy Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidotrope.net\/autumn-2018\/players-by-curtis-c-chen\/\"><strong>&#8220;Players&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<em>Kaleidotrope<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also wrote a nonfiction article based on several workshops I&#8217;ve presented recently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;How to Write a Query Letter&#8221;<\/strong> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/membership.sfwa.org\/page-1462864\"><i>SFWA Bulletin<\/i><\/a>\u00a0#213<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And I narrated three other writers&#8217; stories for podcasts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/apex-magazine\/e\/52744775\">&#8220;The Heaven-Moving Way&#8221; by Chi Hui; translated by Andy Dudak<\/a>\u00a0(<em>Apex Magazine<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/podcastle.org\/2018\/08\/28\/podcastle-537-to-the-moon\/\">&#8220;To the Moon&#8221; by Ken Liu<\/a>\u00a0(cast member,\u00a0<em>PodCastle<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.castofwonders.org\/2018\/12\/cast-of-wonders-337-silkstrand-a-minute-of\/\">&#8220;Silkstrand, a Minute of&#8221; by Anton Stark<\/a>\u00a0(<em>Cast of Wonders<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I finished a new standalone novel, which is now out on submission to publishers.<\/p>\n<p>I was part of the writing team for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serialbox.com\/serials\/ninthstep\"><em>Ninth Step Station<\/em><\/a>, a new serial debuting January 9th on Serial Box.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Other things that happened in 2018:<\/p>\n<p>I served my first full calendar year as Secretary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/\">SFWA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I continued helping to organize <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzledpint.com\/\">Puzzled Pint<\/a>\u00a0events every month.<\/p>\n<p>I attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.launchpadworkshop.org\/\">Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/2018.xoxofest.com\/\">XOXO Fest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I appeared at seven conventions: Emerald City Comic Con, Norwescon, the SFWA Nebula Conference, the Willamette Writers Conference, Worldcon, World Fantasy, and OryCon.<\/p>\n<p>I loaned some items to the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wingluke.org\/single-exhibit\/?mep_event=1136\">&#8220;Worlds Beyond Here&#8221;<\/a> exhibit at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Back in February, DeeAnn and I went on what is, for various reasons, likely to be our last JoCo Cruise.<\/p>\n<p>In June, seven months after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, our cat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2018\/12\/10\/jasper-died-on-a-sunday\/\">Jasper<\/a> died peacefully at home.<\/p>\n<p>And in December, we got a new cat, <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/HEiNGantScHVQV2H6\">Alice<\/a>, from our friend Lili. As of this writing, she&#8217;s still figuring out the best way to play with our other cat, <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/qPrkVwFbS7PxbuMN7\">Tye<\/a>, but has otherwise integrated herself into our household pretty well.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Looking ahead to 2019:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m already committed to eleven different <a href=\"https:\/\/curtiscchen.com\/events\/\">author-type events<\/a>, though only five of those are out of town.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, I&#8217;m headed to New York City to start a new Serial Box project.<\/p>\n<p>I started writing another standalone novel in November, and hope to finish the first draft by the end of January.<\/p>\n<p>DeeAnn and I are celebrating our second ReWedding (read: 14th wedding anniversary) in three different cities on the west coast in March. If you&#8217;re in the Bay Area, Portland, or Seattle, <a href=\"mailto:rewedding@snout.org\">email us<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what else we&#8217;ll be facing in the next twelve months, but I know we&#8217;ll be able to deal with it, whatever it is.<\/p>\n<p>Because I know we are stronger together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/snout_2013_240x.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/snout_2013_240x.png 240w, https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/snout_2013_240x-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it&#8217;s time to take stock of what&#8217;s happened in my life over the last twelve months, both professionally and personally&#8230; In 2018, I had two fiction stories published: &#8220;Go, Space Racer!&#8221; in Playboy Magazine &#8220;Players&#8221;\u00a0in\u00a0Kaleidotrope I also wrote&#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":[2,14,3,11,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-debriefing","category-overshare","category-publishing","category-thisbusinesswecallshow","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","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=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}