I've been writing this blog since 2012, and I think I've come to the end of the road on this site. How I've managed to keep up amazes me, especially in 2020. This is the year that the pandemic seems to have put me on what I call creative crack. My creativity has soared. I finished Someone Like Them a romantic suspense novel, (or is it Women's Fiction , I'm not sure anymore.) I finished writing a mystery novel with my writing partner, L. Barnett Evans. I also started two new novels. One is a historical mystery and the other one is general fiction with political and social overtones. Plus, earlier this year I wrote a play titled Ebony Eagles, the third work in a trilogy of plays I started in 2017. All three plays have won or been finalists in national play festivals. I wrote Ebony Eagles in March 2020 and the play has been a finalist in two festivals and has won a third. I couldn't be happier with those results. It has been quite a year. However, I think it's time to find a new name for this blog, a new direction since I'm expanding my writing muscles, and probably a new blog platform.
In 2021 Someone Like Them should be released, and if we can find an agent, hopefully, the thriller Retribution, written by L. Barnett Evans and me, should be released by 2022. In addition, I was the recipient of a prestigious award from my local Arts Council to indulge in a creative endeavor that will keep me on the road for a while. So, I'm not sure if I'm going to keep up this blog or start a new one. I have yet to decide. Meanwhile I do have a website which I would like readers to visit: www.crystalrhodes.com.
I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year. s we all know, the year 2020 has been one for the ages.
