I’m not one to spend a lot of time looking back, I like to look forward. I try to learn from my past mistakes and enjoy the little successes. However, I don’t spend a lot of time moping and using the words ‘I wish’…they are not in my vocabulary. There is no point bemoaning the past because you can’t change it.

The great thing about a new year is that 2013 is a clean slate and I can start again. Isn’t that exciting!

Don’t get me wrong, I do get down in the dumps occasionally, but I’m a pretty positive person. I’m ALWAYS grateful for what I do have, and I’m aware that there are certainly many people worse off than me! Let’s face it, I’m healthy, I’m not starving and I have a roof over my head and two jobs I LOVE (a part-time day job and my writing).

Even better, I have friends and family who support me in the bad times, and share in my successes. I don’t need much more than that.

Okay, perhaps a new car would be nice (not sure that will happen in 2013 – I’d have to sell a load more books). I could do with losing a kilo or two, or three, or shit, ten! It might be nice to meet a lovely tall, dark and handsome man. And I could do with more than twenty-four hours in the day so I can write more books…

But really, I realise I’m content. My health is okay at the moment – touch wood. I’ve just moved into my new house in the Hawke’s Bay. I released five books this year, the fifth this month, my first contemporary, The Reluctant Wife. I’m all booked up in terms of books to write in 2013, the first time ever that I don't have to think about what I’m writing in one year. I have a full schedule.

So my friends, thanks for sharing 2012 with me. I’d like to thank my readers, I’ve really ejoyed meeting you all online and I'm pleased you enjoyed my books. To my Street-Team, Bron's Bold Belles, you rock. What would I do without you. To Kati, my PA, I owe you big time! To my Book In Fifty Days loop –awesome year for all of us-what a great group of writers. To my RWNZ Wellington Chapter (pictured above at our Christmas dinner) thanks for the laughs and support.

I hope you’re still with me at the end of 2013. Remember to look forward. If 2012 wasn’t so good for you, kick it to the curb, pick yourself up, dust yourself down and decide to make 2013 a corker of a year. I hope that the New Year starts with a roar for all of us, and just keeps building.

And to help with that pick-me-up, here’s my hunk for 2012 – Eduardo Verastegui, my inspiration for Conte Dante Lombardi, the hero in The Reluctant Wife. Isn’t he to die for? Who’s your hunk of 2012?

I wish everyone good health, wealth and loads of happy times. I’d rather get laughter wrinkles than worry lines! Take care, all the best…

Bron

2012 Bookshelf