2020 started for me with seeing an incredible real life sports story unfold when an underdog athlete won junior worlds title—and it came with movie-like hype around his opponents and a team-mate who was hailed as the new dawn for his sport nationally. And two silver medals in huge events, losing by a sliver. And—I kid you not—climbing from 13th position to the 3rd in junior nationals almost missing his chance to go to junior worlds... but in the end, the kid won his hard-earned gold...
After that, the things went haywire—I lost my long awaited trip to the world championship (senior), and COVID locked down the world.
On personal note, I kept writing, finishing my Magnum Opus, She Kills Elephants And Men in 2020
Writing the cutest How to Marry Your Dragon, and the novel that was warmly received here, on Tapas, Trapped by the Mafia.
I also wrote an experimental YA novel, Lone Werewolf (that I will be posting into 2021).
By the very end of the year, I received a writing award on a book written in 2019, the book I almost didn’t enter in the contest, that I thought was pointless to even upload on the Internet.
It was a soft story with an overweight, failed PhD candidate, a librarian male love interest. And a burned-out figure skater...
On the Internet, where the romances are all about Abusive Mr. Abs Billionaires...
I didn’t expect it from 2020, but somehow it happened to me.
And I am still pinching myself.