End-of-Year Review...

So 2015 is coming to a close (finally)........

This has NOT been a very good year for me.  The only positives for me was the fact that I'd published at least three books this year; two paperback novels, and an eBook of poetry.  I feel very accomplished to have achieved that feat, but it's rather bittersweet since I don't feel like I'm getting the (financial) support that I deserve.

I'm hoping to turn around my fortunes for next year. I still have plans to move out of the state.  New York may be my home state, but fuck this place.  I haven't felt supported since I came back.  I basically wasted a good year and a half of my life, and for what?!  It's like that old saying...you can never go back home again.  Brooklyn isn't the same place as it was before.  It's lost it's identity, originality, and soul.  Fuck these new jacks, and gentrifiers; they bring nothing to the table except stagnation.

I'm considering publishing a new project in 2016; a short story anthology.  I'm pretty much in the final editing stages right about now.  I might release it in late spring/early summer of 2016.  I want to focus more on doing the festival circuit in the coming new year.  I seriously fell off my game doing that last year, primarily due to lack of funds.  Even with the few event that I DID do this past year, I didn't earn much of anything, if anything at all.  It seems best to get the fuck OUT of New York, and focus my works elsewhere.  I miss traveling to different states, as well as interacting with the people at these events.  Niggaz here in NY be on some bullshit, and act like they can't support you.  Hopefully, I'll be able to remedy that in 2016.

I'm trying to work on expanding my UNIVERSAL AFRICANA LITERARY ARTS MOVEMENT & EXPO project.  I want to be able to (finally) do the Expo again; I haven't been able to hold one since it's first incarnation, and that was back in '08.  I want to do more with "the Movement" and be able to expand it's program.  Of course, I would need HELP doing it, which nobody ever wants to give.  Everybody wants to benefit from your work, but never wants to PUT the work in.  Perhaps in this new location, I can finally get "the Movement" off the ground the way that I it want to.

I currently have no plans for Kwanzaa; I can't afford to do any of the Kwanzaa events that I do know about anyway.  I would actually like to spend the last two week of the remaining year out of state, just to recharge my energies.  Hopefully, I can make that happen.  I'm sick of the negative energy that I'm dealing with here in NYC.

So, here's to a better new year.  May the more positive energies embrace me, and help to propel me to a more prosperous result.  I'll continue to try to make things happen, and keep you all up to date.

Paz