The beginning of this year was a bit of a blur – I was finishing Into the Light, the third book in the Into the Mists Trilogy, and suffering my usual self-doubt over it being boring (my poor hubby just rolls his eyes now when I ask how anyone could want to read it), interspersed with many late nights and early mornings, and my usual stubbornness that compels me to keep writing even when I’m not sure I’ll ever publish it – I can’t start something and not finish it:-)

I still kept up my daily workouts – the end of Shaun T’s T25 in January, two months of Jillian Michaels’s new BodyShred program after that, then two months of Tony Horton’s P90X3 with add-ons…

And I celebrated Samhain in early May

Into the Light

And on May 27 the Into the Light books arrived, just in time for launching at the Mind Body Spirit Festival the next morning (nothing like a tight deadline to keep me on my toes!). The book looked so pretty, and I was overwhelmed with gratitude that so many people were excited to read it, and happily surprised by how many took a leap of faith and bought the trilogy… It was fun to catch up with lots of friends during the festival, and to take a moment to just breathe after the stress of the previous month, and as always I was very grateful to my sweet husbee for all his amazing love, support and help…

And my “reward” for finishing this book was a barbell set and step/deck for Pump – I kicked off a Body Combat/Body Pump hybrid at the end of May, and LOVE it! xx