{"id":1661,"date":"2014-01-01T10:12:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T15:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2014-01-01T10:12:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T15:12:37","slug":"welcome-2014-looking-back-and-looking-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/welcome-2014-looking-back-and-looking-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome 2014! Looking back and looking forward &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year was &#8230; strange &#8230; but in a good way!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-prn1\/1526185_10151789926091193_415234071_n.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(This New Year, too, will eventually be washed away. Image from MyrtleBeach.com&#8217;s Facebook feed.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had three stories published in 2013:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;A Star That Moves,&#8221; in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/4258689\">LORE<\/a><\/em> in April<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What is a Warrior Without His Wounds?&#8221; in the July issue of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asimovs.com\/2013_07\/tableofcontents.shtml\">Asimov&#8217;s Science Fiction Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Entropy Box,&#8221; in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writers-Relief-Vol-Davey-Beauchamp\/dp\/1492391344\">Writers for Relief III<\/a><\/em>, edited by Davey Beauchamp and Stuart Jaffe, in October 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, of course, I released my album, <a title=\"Truths and Lies and Make-Believe\" href=\"http:\/\/grayrinehart.bandcamp.com\/album\/truths-and-lies-and-make-believe\">Truths and Lies and Make-Believe<\/a>, in August. (If you haven&#8217;t bought a copy yet, the download is $7 and the physical CD is $10.)<\/p>\n<p>So far I have one story slated for publication in 2014: &#8220;Lightweaver in Shadow,&#8221; which will be part of the <em>Shattered Shields<\/em> anthology edited by Jennifer Brozek and Bryan Thomas Schmidt. It will come out from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/\">Baen Books<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n<p>I need to finish editing another story that&#8217;s been provisionally accepted, and I&#8217;ve got other songs in work that may eventually be part of another album. 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(This New Year, too, will eventually be washed away. Image from MyrtleBeach.com&#8217;s Facebook feed.) 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