As we approach
the end of 2022 and await the start of a new year, it’s time to jettison any
spent fuel pods and boost our rockets with fresh ones. Getting new clothes for
Christmas? Go through your closets and donate older, unworn items. Redecorating
the living room? Give that dumpy couch to Goodwill before your new furniture is
delivered. Santa bringing a ton of stuff for the kids? Have them go through
their baby toys to donate before Christmas morning to make room in their toy
boxes.
Time for a new boost.
As for me, the changes here at the end of the year have more to do with business, and they are both a little sadder and a little more exciting at the same time. After a solid run of 15 years, this blog, founded by author Laurie A. Green, is closing. I was a co-blogger here on Spacefreighters Lounge every week for 13 of those years, after meeting Laurie at the 2009 Romance Writers of America convention in Washington D.C. Our association took us through our early days of seeking publication, to cover reveals, book launches, RWA upheaval, and more. This week’s post will be my last, and the end comes with some nostalgia for the good old days.
Kudos to Laurie for the many hours she spent trying to wrangle the technical details of the blog and herd the cats that were her co-bloggers and guest authors. She put in all those hours in between trying to write her own books (and manage a full-time job in the early years, too). Laurie is hereby awarded the Golden Bottle of Aspirin Trophy for her stellar efforts!
I’ll miss the old blog, but I won’t stop blogging. I’ll continue at my personal blog, Across the Multiverse, on my website every Thursday (which also posts on Goodreads), because, of course, I have plenty to say about science, romance, and the world at large. I hope all you regular readers of Spacefreighters will join me there.
One other change I am much happier to announce: I have left the increasingly hostile Twitterverse for the friendlier social media environment at Mastodon.online. Links to all my blog posts, podcasts and author announcements will be posted there at @donnafrelick@mastodon.online. Come follow me there!
Goodbye, Spacefreighters, and happy spacefaring to all,
Donna
Thanks for being part of the Spacefreighters Lounge crew for all those long years, Donna. It's been an exciting journey and we've seen a lot of changes in the industry along the way. It's always fun to harken back to our "Golden Heart" years and share all the excitement as each of us, in our own time, blasted off into authordom. I think Spacefreighters Lounge more than served it's purpose of promoting SFR authors, books and SFR in general for over a decade and a half, and as we close out 2022, it's probably a great time for it to make it's final run. All the best to you on your Across the Multiverse blog. I'll be sure to pop in to see what you're up to in the future.
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