How Much I, A Queer Self-Published Indie Author, Made In A Year

My end of year report, looking at earnings, expenses, and achievements this year. 

My name is Johannes T. Evans, and for those unfamiliar with me, I am a self-published author of queer fiction, especially fantasy, romance, horror, and erotica. 

I live in Yorkshire in the UK, and I have been a full-time author since 2021 after the publication of my first M/M romance novel, Heart of Stone, in 2020. Each year I’ve been writing, I’ve made more than the year before, and I don’t make a lot, but I do mostly make enough to live on. 

I am a gay trans man and I’m also disabled, and a lot of my work features queer and trans characters, as well as different forms of disability and chronic illness — in short, it features niche and minority characters, and subsequently, has a much smaller target audience than fantasy and romance fiction with more mainstream appeal. 

The benefit of this smaller audience, though, is that my readers largely don’t feel catered to by mainstream publishers, and the number of creators like me representing people like us is much smaller. I also don’t feel as much pressure to write to genre convention or expected tropes, so I do a lot more slice-of-life and character study, for example.

I obviously write and publish books, but they’re normally the third or fourth part of my process.

Each week, I try to write and publish a new piece — this might be a standalone short story, it might be a chapter for a serial, a non-fiction thinkpiece or essay, or something else. Apart from fiction and essays, I make a crossword every month, and most recently I’ve embarked on a kink survey with live results charted in an attached slideshow. 

Longer novella and novelette-length stories are re-edited and published as eBooks in addition to being available online, and when longer web serials reach completion, I re-edit them and publish them as novels. That’s actually the process I originally followed for Heart of Stone, as well as all my subsequent novels. 

How much money did I make this year?

I’m just after completing my tax return for the last tax year, which ran from April 2024 to April 2025. 

My business turnover for this year was a little under £17,500 (approx $23, 400 USD). Expenses for the business — travel expenses, professional fees, tickets and memberships for cons, etc — were about £2600 (approx $3450 USD).

My take-home pay, after paying my taxes for the year, is gonna be a little over £14k ($18.7k USD).

My income this year, in order of most to least lucrative, came from:

• subscription income from subscribers who pay monthly or annually to support me on different platforms and for access to premium works
• royalties from self-published eBooks and paperbacks published through Draft2Digital and Kindle Direct Publishing, with most royalties coming through Amazon, then Smashwords, Kobo, and Apple Books, followed by scattered royalties across lots of different smaller sources like libraries
• eBooks sold through my own website
• eBooks sold through itch.io
• physical merchandise and signed paperback books sold through my website and sent by post
• physical merchandise and signed paperback books sold in-person at markets and conventions
• earnings from Medium
• advances, honoraria, and fees paid to me for works or appearances
• other miscellaneous small income, like sales on old stock photos and small merch sales

My main business expenses were:

• paying my accountant, as I’m not able to do my own taxes
• tickets and membership dues for conventions and the British Fantasy Society
• table fees for selling at markets and conventions
• travel to conventions and markets, especially train travel for WorldCon and BristolCon, and then markets across Manchester, Nottingham, and Leeds
• website hosting fees
• venue fees
• bulk-buying books for sale; postage and customs fees
• getting business cards, signage, and bookmarks printed
• material for making badges and doing printing at home
• experimentation with ads on Tumblr and Instagram as well as local marketing

Do I make enough to live on? 

Minimum wage in the UK for a 35-hour-week is meant to be like £22k, and I generally work more hours than that in a working week, but equally, because of my chronic illness, there are many weeks where I’m barely able to move, let alone complete any work, and most traditional employment doesn’t allow for the control over my own schedule that this work does. 

I live with my partner, who is currently doing a master’s degree and is working part-time, and our overall amount of income for the household has obviously gone down significantly with the loss of his full-time salary, but when he starts his PhD next year he’ll be on a stipend. 

It’s also important to note that we can only live on this amount of money really because I own my apartment’s leasehold outright, so instead of paying a mortgage or paying monthly rent, which in this area would be between £800 and £1100, I only pay my ground rent and service charge, which works out to £300-£400 a month instead. 

Recently, I’ve been approved for the Personal Independence Payment, which is a payment the UK government gives for those who are chronically ill or disabled in order to help with the additional costs of living associated with disability and illness, and that’s an extra £295 per month. 

PIP isn’t means-tested (as in, it’s awarded based on the severity of my health issues, not based on my other income), but we’re also in the process of potentially applying for Universal Credit at the moment — I’m not sure if we’re actually going to be eligible, because I’m of course self-employed and ordinarily if you’re self-employed but make below the threshold for minimum wage, they want you to quit and look for traditional employment instead, but my health issues this year are the worst they’ve ever been, and returning to traditional employment even working from home just wouldn’t be feasible for me, even though I’ve considered it. 

I would also point out for those who aren’t disabled and chronically ill is that, on the one hand, I save a lot of money by “not going out” — i.e., I am housebound most weeks, especially in winter with my current flare-up, and can’t so much as manage the walk across the road to the shop, let alone regularly go out anywhere else. 

My partner has to do an absurd amount of work to help care for me, including helping me bathe and dress myself some days, helping me stand or do basic tasks, etc, not to mention that the bulk of household tasks like cooking and grocery shopping and so on falls on them: it still needs to get done. 

People often mistakenly view being chronically ill and house- or bed-bound as some sort of luxury they’d like to partake of rather than as mind-numbingly boring, isolating, and depressing, especially because from the outside I might look quite cosy under my blankets and jumpers and gritting my teeth through inflammatory pain even after taking the max dosage of my pain meds. Which makes sense, because we live in a world that often equates rest and recuperation with luxury, and many people are horribly overworked and should have far more days off and far more time at home than they get.

It’s just that, you know, for me, it’s not really a choice. 

Moreover, when I do go out to feel like a human being, like if we go to the arcade or to the cinema, I have to spend more on getting there and getting home, and this year my biggest personal expenses have been on modifications to my kitchen and bathroom to make things more accessible, as well as hiring a cleaner because my ability to clean anything myself is just shot. 

Most councils in the UK will provide some accessibility aids for free after an assessment about what you might need — Bradford Council sent me a perch chair for sitting in the kitchen rather than standing while cooking, a step stool to make getting in and out of the bath easier, a bath bench so that I can sit while showering, and a very nice man with knee problems came and installed grab bars in the bathroom to help me get on and off the toilet and to get in and out of the shower.

Most notably, disability and illness-related money we’ve had to spend has been on:

• a cleaner who was coming once every two weeks, but from the new year she’s going to come for an hour every week
• taxis, not because the bus itself is that inaccessible once I’m on it, but because so many bus stops don’t have benches or don’t have benches that support my body, don’t come regularly enough or on time, don’t have shelters, etc, and it’s freezing at the moment so all these issues are made a lot worse
• my prescription meds, which I pay for on a monthly basis and are much cheaper on the NHS than under a privatized system as in Ireland; then additional meds and supplements, especially antihistamines and nutritional supplements
• a new kitchen island (for more accessible storage and so I can sit properly to chop vegetables and prepare food)
• more accessible shelves and storage, especially in the bathroom and the kitchen, to keep bending over or crouching down to the floor at a minimum
• delivery of basically everything, because my ability to go shopping, let alone to carry things home, is so poor
• various kitchen aids, including a motorised salad spinner for chopping vegetables and grating cheese; various adaptive tools to help me open jars and cans; an apple corer, etc
• granny trolley for carrying things because I’m less able to carry a rucksack or satchel
• adaptive tools to help me do stuff like button shirts when my hands are bad and I don’t have help
• grabber tools for reaching things when seated
• telescopic stools so that I can sit down anywhere despite lack of accessible public seating
• RADAR keys (for access to public disabled toilets) and stupid sunflower lanyards (because how else will people know a hobbling man using a cane, sometimes with visible braces on my joints, is disabled?)

My increasing illness and disability is also why we got TomTom, an elderly cat who spent his last few months with us in the spring, and then our new household terrorists, Bertram and Myrtle. 

Obviously, having cats entails expenses for food and litter and toys and entertainment and WORK, especially when your cats are as criminally minded as they are intellectually challenged, but if I was genuinely alone most days when my partner is working or away on top of being in so much pain and so sick of being stuck at home, I would go insane in such a way that even my rather strong anti-anxiety medications would not be sufficient to ameliorate matters.

With all those basics dealt with, let’s get onto the meat of this — what did I actually do this year?

New Works Published in 2025

Each month, I like to average at least four new posts – this might include blog posts, especially talking about convention or market experiences, or giving recs for TV and film, but mostly it focuses on short stories (anywhere from microfiction at a few hundred words to longer novella-length works at 12-20k), serial chapters (which depending on the work may range from 2k to 10k per chapter), and then guides, reviews, and essays of various lengths and topics.

Online, I self-published:

Type of Publication	Number Posted
Standalone Short Story – Fantasy	7
Standalone Short Story – Romance	3
Standalone Short Story – Erotica	13
Standalone Short Story – LitFic, Slice-of-Life, & Miscellaneous	3
Standalone Short Story – Sci-Fi	1
Serial Chapters Across All Serials	18
Guides & Tutorials	5
Movie Reviews	2
Personal Essays & Analysis	5
Puzzles & Games	4

All of these were published on my website, and the majority were also posted to Medium. Where possible, the non-serial fiction and essays were published on Patreon. I also published some of these pieces on Ao3, and for some short stories and essays, directly to Tumblr and Reddit.

In terms of new publications and books, this year my work appeared in:

• Dudes Rock: A Celebration of Queer Masculinity in Speculative Fiction – an anthology of short stories featuring queer men and mascs in SFF
• SLAKE HOUSE – a queer erotic horror choose-your-own-ending (CYOE) anthology
• Issue 11 of Transmuted Magazine
• Between the Stacks: Stories of Lusty Librarians, Amorous Authors, & Bawdy Bookstores – an anthology of erotica themed about literature & libraries
• Light Paths – a queer romance duology of two novelettes, one by Cinnamaldeide, one by me, which is due to release on the 27th December

And I self-published:

• An Uncommon Betrothal — a 1920s erotic romance between a disabled gentleman and his new butler, with a focus on disability, chronic pain, and queer self-discovery
• Historic Brotherhood — a 1970s piece of litfic exploring the friendship and mentorship between a university student exploring his desirability as a young, gay fat man and the gloriously fat and openly queer uncle of a classmate
• A Bite of Rope — a 1950s asexual kink work exploring D/s and bondage dynamics between an ex-soldier riddled with a PTSD and a handsome ex-clown from the secretarial pool
• Each Man an Island — a fantasy novella following Godfrey Digbett III, cleric to the minor god Halloran, and a mysterious and somewhat frightening priest of death
• A Clean Pig — a dark erotic novella where a London copper finds himself slowly taken in by a hauntingly beautiful younger man who doms him easily from his wheelchair
• Bird Song — a romance short story between a disabled engineer and a catty Deaf man he feeds ducks with in the park
• Personal Hole — an erotic short story featuring magical body modification
• Chosen — a short story where a young Jewish man is offered a home by the family of a gentleman he was nursing in his final years

This year, I’ve also been nominated for several Indie Ink Awards across An Uncommon Betrothal (9 nominations), Heart of Stone (1 nomination), Strange Liberty (5 nominations), and Historic Brotherhood (7 nominations). 

So, what did I do this year other than write and publish?

The New Website

As I said earlier, my website is newly launched as of April this year.

Honestly, the process of launching it was an absolute ball-ache, but between Patreon censorship and Tumblr silliness and the collapse of Twitter into X and then into nothing, I wanted to have my own centralised place to post my work where I didn’t have to worry about my work being abruptly hidden or deleted, my subscribers being messed about, or the platform collapsing beneath me. 

I had procrastinated setting up my own website for years, partly because of the cost involved but largely because I knew the process of initially setting it up would be such an annoying one, and it was indeed annoying.

I use WordPress as a host, which I found to be so much more straightforward to use than I found when using Wix several years ago — Wix, honestly, has an agonisingly irritating client to use because they basically want to funnel you into paying one of their web developers to build your site for you, and I had an absolutely awful experience with its user interface. WordPress did have quite a steep learning curve, and multiple times in the process of trying to achieve my goals this spring Lorenzo had to forcibly usher me away from the computer to take a break or do Anything Other than what I was doing, but once I developed more of a sense for its UI, it was really quite satisfying to use.

It’s not perfect as a web host, by any means — especially compared to my experiences building websites ten or so years ago, I obviously yearn for the days where AI “assistance” isn’t being shoved in my face and where it’s much easier to actually view the code behind the processes I’m trying to fix or modify, but the internet has alas moved on from those rosy days of a different kind of infuriating difficulty that I would have also complained a lot about. 

One thing I have found very frustrating about WordPress is the irregular necessity of installing a new plug-in or extension in order to accomplish something that strikes me as basic, and how many of WordPress’ own plug-ins demand an additional subscription fee to do so. There’ll be third parties offering the same application results for free, but it’s just irritating when I’m already paying for the web domain and the WP client for it to then be like, oh, give us another £99 a year for this or go fuck yourself.

I do like the wide array of functionalities that the client offers, I like how popular the client is, meaning that when something is irritating me it’s not too difficult to search for a forum or a discussion thread troubleshooting exactly that issue, and the biggest thing that was a big fucking help in setting the website up was how easy it was to port old articles from Medium directly over to the new site.

I’ve been writing on Medium since 2020, so I did delete a few blog posts and stuff here and there, and some image-heavy articles were difficult to port across — I consolidated my subscribers on Medium and Patreon to the new site, and some of them will unfortunately know that in this process of my learning the client I was so incompetent in the process that at one point I sent dozens of emails to them in one day, apologised, said I’d learned how to not do that… and then promptly did the exact same thing the next day.

A lot of website clients basically assume now that they’re either being used to host an online shop or as a newsletter host, and so it’s constantly like please please please can I send an email? And other times, it is not asking. It’s just sending out an email that I notice ten minutes later even though I was so sure I finally just turned off all the “send-an-email” settings. 

A lot of things, though, I’ve tweaked over time — the main issue in setting up the website was porting across hundreds of stories and essays, and then after that, it was instituting a robust new tagging system, then creating a new Directory of Work, where I keep all my works organised by title and description on one page. 

I am most proud of the new tagging system, which is loosely based on the tags I most use and have used on Ao3, and I’m really excited about adding to it over time as well as introducing a more complex search-by-tag system when I have the time and energy to get to it. 

I’ve had a good bit of feedback here and there on how to adjust the site over time, including having both a light and dark reading mode available, adjusting the fonts a little bit, making it more easily navigable for serials, et cetera. 

I have now cancelled my WorldAnvil subscription — it’s still great, and I absolutely recommend it as a tool, just that the main benefits I got from WA, I obviously now have consolidated on my own domain. 

I do want to adjust how I host serials over time. Because I transitioned how I presented Powder and Feathers chapters on Medium, it ended up being too awkward to port across from Medium, but most of my other serials are hosted on the site — that’s not a huge priority for me, just one I want to keep in mind. 

I do really love how easy image hosting is, how easy it is to tag my stuff in complex ways, how easy it is to link posts to one another, and obviously have contact forms and stuff in place. 

Setting up subscribers was the main thing that I wanted for the site, where the vast majority of my back catalogue is free to read, and then new premium stuff I set behind a paywall. My subscription tiers are loosely based off of the Patreon benefits I had before, and I’m probably gonna adjust those and add more tier options in the new year — if you’re thinking about doing something similar to me with monthly and annual tiers and benefits, another creator that has a really robust personal benefits system is fydbac!

One part of the website that was its own sort of difficult to set up was my own store — I had to get an extra plug-in for it, of course, and the tags re kind of irritating to set up. I still have to manually do a lot of cross-recommendations and up-sells that I haven’t gotten around to addressing yet, but they’re on the to-do list. 

I’ve made all my eBooks available for sale, and also put in a bunch of bundles, which is great, because obviously I don’t have to pay a percentage on those sales to Amazon or any other host site, and I can do my own sales and bundles. I haven’t figured out how to make it possible to do gifts, though, which is so irritating — at the moment, I’m still recommending people go to Smashwords if they want to send gift copies. I do think I’m gonna make gift cards available, which will be a gift option, and then you can send a friend a gift card to my site and they can choose to either subscribe for a year or buy x number of eBooks and bundles, etc. 

In launching An Uncommon Betrothal in paperback this November, I made paperback sales an option through the website, and unfortunately it was a lot more physical work than I was anticipating — especially because I was selling a lot of different smaller books, it was a bit hard to manage bigger sales. 

I have to order the paperbacks in bulk — I have made the transition from KDP’s paperbacks to Ingram Sparks’ ones, they’re much nicer — and then I stamp the front leaf with some of my ex-libris and nautical stamps, then sign them. Then, I send them off — ideally via Royal Mail’s collection service, which were no-shows the last time I tried, or I or Lorenzo drop them off at a post box.

A lot of it is just quite physical for me when I’m fatigued to pack stuff together and think about the order in which I have to do those basic things, but I know that it is really nice for people to be able to order signed paperbacks, and not everyone has the opportunity to come to markets and conventions. 

I think in the new year I’m going to continue to have An Uncommon Betrothal on sale in paperback, and then also make Heart of Stone available, and do small batches of smaller paperbacks available once or twice a year, especially when I have help to package and send off parcels. I think the badges and zines I’m gonna leave off as options until I have more of a comfortable routine parcelling things.

Several people have expressed interest in potentially ordering bookplates that they would be able to just insert directly into books they own already, and I will look into that later next year. 

As well as ordering and printing business cards this year, I also printed bookmarks, which I was very pleased with, and especially for markets and conventions I printed off a cardboard sign with this poster on it, and then had a metal one printed.

Next year, I want to maybe maybe totes available for sale at cons, but they’re obviously really expensive to get printed compared to paper products and badges — I was also looking into printed condoms, but they were actually quite pricey as well.

Apart from my own store, having my own website obviously allows so much more opportunity for complex multimedia — I’ve started doing monthly crosswords and might do other puzzles in future; I made the kink survey with some attached live graphs; I’ve been working on some choose-your-own-ending games and little things in RPG maker, and I know that if and when any of those are finished, I’ll be able to host them directly on my own site as well!

Selling at Markets

One thing I did experiment with this year was selling at more in-person markets, and while I wouldn’t say it was a complete failure, my health this year has made travelling for markets and especially carting heavy books around so much harder.

Very early on, after doing the Meanwood Market in Leeds, I knew I wouldn’t be able to do outdoor markets in the summer — I think I’ve done ten or twelve markets this year, and I would definitely say that I had the worst time doing “general” markets.

Multiple times I would find at normal markets that apart from stares and glares from passing straight couples, especially those with kids and/or expensive clothes on, even more chill people would come over and look at books and then nervously glance behind them for friends or people they knew and then hastily put them down, and ditto for badges.

Some people did buy, of course, but I was especially surprised by how much of that happened at a goth and alt market — even queer people were a bit nervous about people looking over their shoulders or friends seeing what they were buying, and I straight-up experienced none of that at queer-dedicated markets.

With my social circle and how vocal I am about my queerness — not to mention how generally visible my queerness and disability are to people even at a glance — I think I’m quite inured to the everyday homophobia a lot of people are anxious about, and especially anxieties caused by exposure to purity culture and censorship of ideas and concepts in art and fiction, and I’ve obviously seen a lot more of that through the above happenings.

With that said, at most I’ve had annoying straight people be mildly rude or uneducated about art — most people have been very friendly and interested in my work, and while it’s not a great way to get widespread exposure, it’s very nice to be able to talk to people IRL about what I’m selling and what I write and why.

The fact that I’m so visibly ill and disabled isn’t a problem at queer events, and it’s obviously never a problem at SFF conventions because most of these cons are run by and largely for disabled and chronically ill people, where a lot of consideration is put into accessibility and inclusion. Other markets are generally less aware even though they’re trying, and God, the stares and creepy anxieties 

I think next year I will still look for queer and literary events in Leeds and Bradford, but hold off on non-queer-specific events, and basically anywhere with either a large table fee or where I’m gonna have to spend a long time on a train, I’m just going to avoid in favour of other events.

Advertising

I did experiment a little bit with advertising this year — I put up some posters with books earlier in the year when they were on sale on Smashwords; later, I was obviously postering largely for An Uncommon Betrothal’s book launch in November. 

Postering is technically littering here, so you have to be careful about where you’re doing it and if you have permission and so on — obviously queer venues are largely very happy to have posters up, but on the street, it’s considered littering. 

I don’t think that postering makes big difference for online stuff, because it’s cleaned up quite quickly and you have to be very lucky to draw the eye, but I’m considering taking out a single billboard in one of the queer villages at some point, maybe in Manchester or London.

Singular billboards for relatively local advertising aren’t necessarily very pricey, and I think it would be good to do to reach a wider array of queer and trans readers, especially targeting university towns or focusing on billboards that are say, across from a sex shop or similar. 

When Twitter was more active, it felt like it was a lot easier to reach a wide array of different people based on retweets — people don’t really retweet as much on Bluesky, and there are far, far fewer users than when my Twitter was at its best and most popular, and I’m really not interested in trying to do big, wide-reaching ads because my work is geared to such a niche audience, and is best served by word-of-mouth spread and targeting to those niche communities. 

I tried an Instagram ad earlier this year, and it was just shit, especially because Meta has spent so long making Facebook and Instagram so unusable unless you’re paying them money and frankly, even if you’re paying them money. I got a few new hits, but paying Meta money is far less helpful for that than just, you know, posting a cute video of my cats.

Tumblr Blazing has been better, definitely, but even then, Blazing a post and paying to get it on people’s dash is less endearing to people than just making good posts in the first place that people want to reblog because they actually want it on their blog, you know?

So, yeah, I do think that when I have stuff like the Smashwords sale, I’ll continue to Blaze stuff like that, but I wouldn’t pay to advertise posts in general, and definitely wouldn’t bother with anything on Insta or Facebook. 

Cold-Emailing for Books & Talks

I did cold-email a bunch of different queer bookshops about orders for my paperbacks earlier in the year, especially An Uncommon Betrothal — I think I got myself on a few new radars, and a few bookshops did order in copies of my books, which made it worth doing.

Apart from that, I also emailed quite a lot of local university societies in West Yorkshire, especially, and offered my time for doing events — I do think most of them, I admit, don’t really monitor their email inboxes, and I would be better off sending messages on their Instagrams, but maybe I’ll try that some time later next year.

Conventions

This year, I did two conventions — TeratoCon and BristolCon.

I had a great time at both, especially at BristolCon, and I had a great time pitching lots of panels for BristolCon, as I’ve pitched ones for EasterCon next year! 

I wasn’t selling at either event this year, TeratoCon because I was travelling on my own, and BristolCon because I left booking a table too late, but it was actually really lucky that I didn’t end up booking my own table at BristolCon, because with FantasyCon being the same week, it was very quiet this year in the dealer’s hall.

Next year, I am planning to be at EasterCon and BristolCon, and hopefully FantasyCon as well — I want to build my own database of panel ideas so that I can pitch more, both panels I’m interested in being on and just interesting discussions in general.

This year I didn’t do so much by way of presentations, such as I’ve done before at WorldCon or with Romancing The Gothic, and I would like to maybe do that — I was talking with a friend about maybe running a local sex education event here in Leeds, which I may still do, I’m not sure, but it might be nice to livestream that on the site or have a video option available. 

Book Launch: An Uncommon Betrothal

My biggest event that I did this year was the in-person launch for An Uncommon Betrothal, and it was great fun!

By doing it in Leeds rather than Manchester or even London, it obviously wasn’t a super bustling event, but a fair few people came along, including some people who just wandered in at the venue and bought some books, and I had lovely feedback on the reading I did as well as buying merch.

We had wine and cheese available and I definitely spent more than I needed to on stuff like that, but it still felt very nice to run an event of that sort — I did make back the money I’d spent on booking the venue and travelling to it, and most of what I’d spent on wine and cheese.

I definitely would like to do more reading events, because I think they’re more interesting to people than book launches specifically if they’re not already a part of a series they’re familiar with; I think I’d like to possibly get together some local erotic creators and do a literary erotica night or similar.

I really enjoy doing events IRL, and they’re not as lucrative as online things, as well as being more taxing on my body, but it just makes the work feel so alive and so fun when you’re able to talk to people about it and see people’s reactions in real time. 

Monthly Creator Boosts

About six months ago now, I think, I did my first trans and nonbinary author boost — I make a post on Bluesky and Tumblr and Instagram, and the idea is people share their work in the replies or reblogs or comments or whatever, and then share other people’s work and check out others that they might be interested in!

It’s been a really nice way to connect with more trans and nonbinary creators, and while I wouldn’t say it particularly gains me more followers, it’s definitely felt like a nice way to broaden my network and who I’m connecting with, and especially to make the platform I have go further for other people, not just for me.

I just started doing the disability and chronic illness boost this month, and I’m really excited to do those monthly for the next year and see how things develop with it, especially with it being on a regular schedule, disability and chronic illness midway through the month, and trans and nonbinary creators on the first. 

In Conclusion

My year has obviously sucked in terms of my health, but I definitely feel like I’ve built some more key skills and competencies, and I’m really excited about everything I’ve finished and published this year, especially where some of my bigger series and continuities are going in their next few books. 

Really excited about how my year has gone despite the troubles, and very excited for the new year ahead!