I’d just like to run-down the list of writing and drama projects I was able to accomplish during 2012. As I look back, it’s been a productive year. Here’s hoping for another productive one in 2013.

January 2012 – Finished editing and published the new play “Life with Stewart.”

May 2012 – “Life with Stewart” premiered at the Penang Performing Arts Centre.

June 2012 – Wrote the short story “Honor Requires No Eulogy: The Heroic Death of Ponchicilius” (unpublished)

June 2012 – Wrote my second novel, “The Recluse Storyteller” – currently in advanced reading stage.  Publish date?

July 2012 – Wrote 8 short plays/skits which became the material for The RLT Players’ performance “Drive All Night…Back into Your Arms”

August – December 2012 – Collaborated on the new comedy “Grandparents’ War” to be published and released in January 2013. It’s an absolutely hilarious cross-cultural comedy.

September 2012 – My short play entitled “Drive All Night” won the Audience Choice Award at the first ever Penang Short & Sweet Theater Festival.

September – December 2012 – Wrote my MA Thesis “NINETEEN FORTY-FIVE INDOCHINA BETWEEN RHETORIC AND REALITY:The Shifting Policies of the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations.”  Yes, it is kind of stuffy, but I enjoyed it.

November 2012 – RLT Players’ performed “Drive All Night…Back into Your Arms.” Oh what fun that was!

December 2012 – Published my first novel, “Beauty Rising.”  The reception has been very encouraging.

December 2012 – Started mapping out novel #3. I call it my last, great Vietnam novel.  lol

2013?  Another novel. More plays. More material for the RLT Players. What else? Who knows, but it should be fun.