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Happy Birthday! Protean Depravity Turns Three!!!

I'm such a bad blogger, I completely forgot the 3rd birthday of my blog... Happy third birthday, Protean Depravity!!

This past year was quite turbulent and had me thinking if and how to carry on with my blog at all - mostly because PD is essentially a pandemic project and as you may have realized, the COVID pandemic ended (probably?).

But as for now, I will carry on. I may switch to and try out maybe a few different formats in the future; like trying to add more author interviews, hopefully original fiction from local authors or publish teasers for a few anthology projects I am translating. But primarily, as long as I'm able to read as much I as I do, I'll keep on reviewing and the reviews are and will stay at the core of PD.

I'm writing all this and hope it will happen, I'm aware that I promised PD would go twitter last year, and it did, but I so disliked that plattform and I'm so not able to keep up with any kind of social media except for Goodreads that the twitter episode only lasted for a month. Let us all now quickly forget about it, lol.

I'd like to thank most of all the authors who write the great books I read, I'm grateful for their work in the first place. Then thank you to authors who contribute to my blog, for their interviews and support and then, of course, the Otherland bookstore for feeding me books! To my book friends, my real friends I read with, my buddy reads and reading groups and to everyone who even bothers reading my stuff, thank you so much!

Let's pretend we can celebrate together and everyone have a drink for Protean Depravity wherever you are, I have a Crémant that waits to be opened for the occasion! 😃 🎈🍾🥂

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