For those of you who are part of the Kittyinaz’s Group, this is one of many banners I made for their use for their Facebook Pages.  We are also holding the voting for the banner for next month.  1st place is for the Group, and 2nd place is the banner for the Kittyinaz Page.   This contest is held monthly, open to anyone who is part of the group.  I put ALL the banners on my site, and you can find them all here.

Also, the Writing contest is ending tonight, so get those last votes in!  There is still time to vote.  And since it is the last day, clear those cookies and you can vote as often as you want!  Poll Closes midnight CST.

Now.  For the long speech…

This past year has had many things happen for me and the site.  The number one is that we moved over to this site.  Thanks to everyone for your patience as we did that.  We have been busy doing family things, but hopefully this coming year we can explore options and work on getting things even better for this place.  I really want the ads to work for all of us!

A huge thank you to my Betas.  They make this all possible.  Huge thanks to our new ladies, you guys have started to teach me more.  I really appreciate it.  If you want to join these awesome ladies, please contact me on Facebook. We are looking for experienced betas to be able to hit the ground working.  I have about 23 stories who are active, and my muse still likes to drop more on me. From there I talk with the Betas, and we decide from there.

My team behind the scenes, Rissa, Robin and Gyllene, thanks so much for all you guys do!!!  Without you three, I would be staring at the screen, trying to transition from writer to tech side.  While I could do it, I’m so glad I don’t have to.  And Rissa….There are no words to thank you for all the stuff you do!! You not only keep my stories right, help me out when I try to figure out things, but you run the welcome wagon part of the Group, keep track of the stories for the Anthem of the Angels and so much more!!! Without you, I would fall apart soon, and never be able to write.  Never doubt your contributions, milady!

And then there is you guys.  The ones who make it all worthwhile.  Thanks to you, I won some awards this year, but more importantly, you have encouraged me to keep writing, by your comments, and even by you stopping by.  This site has had over 600K of hits, and this particular has had over 150K. hits on it.  Wow!!!!   You guys have supported us with all the plagiarism, and your help has taken down the person who did it to one of my friends.

We have had some awesome responses to the Writing Challenges.  It has helped some new writers get started, and it has also given birth to other stories.  One of them inspired me on one of the One Shots!

Your patience overall through the bad times and the good times has helped.  I am truly thankful to stumbled onto such great readers!  You give me the confidence to work on my own novel and hope that it does well enough.

Thanks to those who are following the reblog page.  It is getting more and more followers.  I reblog everything I get in my emails for WordPress.  If you are a writer, please let me know if I am not following you, and I will happily reblog you on the page!! If you are looking for new people, hop over to the site, and sign up.

The Kittyinaz’s Food Blog is also taking off, thanks to Megan and her 25 days of Christmas!  I look forward to seeing what she has in store for the next year, along with Leigh Warner who are the two ladies in charge of that site.

For those who follow the Anthem of the Angels site, we are planning to see more happening to it also.  I think the Crossover Haven will be getting a makeover.

Thanks for helping make our first You Want Blood Awards such a huge success!  We are planning for it the new year’s in May, so be thinking of who you want to nominate.  The rules will be slightly different, so be looking for that news coming in the new year.

Also thanks so much for taking a chance with me on the new crossovers and so forth I have come up.  Nothing has been abandoned, but my muse seems to enjoy bringing up new ideas.

All in all, we love your interest, and thanks to you, these sites are up and running.

So what does the new year hold for us?  Well the Banner above should give a hint of what I am going to try to get to!!

As soon as all the written chapters are off to the betas, I will be working directly on getting my rough draft for my novel out for the betas to all tell me what they think as well as the proofreaders.  After that, I plan on finishing In The End, and then to work on Edge and continue from there.  Since I am planning on doing things a little different all around, I am hoping that these chapters will be turning around quickly.

Remember, writing is always evolving, especially when you are me.  I like to be better and often work towards this.  I am trying something new with the new Charmed story, and it is working well.  I may end up sitting down and working on putting all the ideas for the story in their journals, that way I can make sure we end up where I want, while giving my muse the freedom outlines didn’t.

And because of my plans, I am actually worried about overloading my betas, since many of them beta for others, as well as write themselves.  I fully encourage them to write, and to do their thing.  so I want to make sure they have the time to do all they need to.  They do this all for free, and I don’t’ want them to feel obligated to do my stuff instead of them.  Ask any of them, I am real insistent on their lives come before my stories.

I am also planning to work harder on my rec lists, to get them done and in the database.  I am working on SVM/TB soon, since the You Want Blood Awards will be kicking in soon.

I also plan to work on all the obligations I have, like the Non-Canon Awards and so on.  RL came in and while nowhere as bad as the past two years, it still kicked my butt.

For me personally, I am planning on balancing my work and my family.  I am so very lucky to be married to my husband, who fully supports me doing this, and only has asked for me to concentrate on working on my novel.  He gives and gives, and I love him for it.  I wish to plan to keep up what we have been doing this past month, and spend time in the evenings together.  Though he completely understands the need to write or make banners.

I do not do resolutions, since I hate failing at anything, and often have set so high of plans, I fail and beat myself up about it.  So I plan to do better.  I wish to get healthier, which has worked.  I have been less sick than normal this year, now if my body will stop tearing stuff, I would be awesome!!!

I plan on drinking more water type stuff.  Since I don’t drink water except when excising, I am planning on more tea and soda stream stuff.  Especially the tea, for Christmas, I took all the gift cards and money sent to me and got myself a tea maker.  This things does everything BUT add the water and tea to it.  It keeps it warm, it heats up the water to the right temperatures and so on.  Right now with my tooth aching so much, the warm tea helps so much.  And to do nothing more than those two steps, well it helps.   I’m thinking of getting another blackboard for my mom, to write down the recipes I am coming up with.  the Tea Blog will be brought back up so I can experiment with the tea maker to make the blends.  Right temperature of water helps so much!

We are getting a fence, so I also plan to spend some time each day with the dogs.  Throwing a ball training, whatever.  And hopefully, this year we can do a garden again.  So many plans, but for the first time, I am having the energy to do it all.  I also plan to go back to the gym, the trip to Las Vegas is a go, and I want to be able to keep up with everyone!  Gotta look good for those pics!

All in all, thank you for a wonderful year, and as you can see, I have plenty of plans for the next year.  Now I am going to go off to my drug haze, and be with my hubs.

Thank you, and please vote for the awesome stories for this month!