There are times when it literally feels I’ve reached the other side of a mountain peak. Now is one such time, having made it through a hellish job working at my local supermarket. Suffering from anxiety and depression is a bitch at the best of times, but having the life literally sucked out of you and your personality quashed beneath the sheer weight of oppressiveness really opened my eyes – again – to why I’m so suited to freelance writing.

So I’m back, reporting from the other side of yuk, and writing for Comic Book Movie again. It’s nice to be back at the site that really helped me get my footing in freelance writing and shaped my writing skills. I’ve got my own “fansite” there where my stuff will be posted – here – and I’ll be covering as much as I can from the world of comics, comic book movies, and movies.

I’ll also be picking up my content producing at Fantasy Book Review, where I’ll be contributing to the news blog. Hopefully we’ll be able to increase the site’s exposure by increasing the news that we deliver in tandem with the reviews we’re dishing out.

I sat down a day or so ago and conducted my own little review-a-thon, and cranked out 7 reviews, including this one on Scott Lynch’s second book in the Gentleman Bastard series, Red Seas Under Red Skies. It rates 7.5 on the site’s current rating system (a 75 on mine).

So I’m awake, at nearly half past 2am on the fourth of the new year, on the day that I hopefully sit into a new routine. I’ll be aiming for mornings writing articles, afternoons writing my novel, and evenings with Bronwyn or reading (or both, preferably). It’s a wonderful feeling a) being away from the previous job, but also b) being in God’s will for my life.

So yeah… Happy New Year everybody, and as I said on Twitter;

Happy New Year. May God bless it, and you, and those you love.

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