New year, new layout, new resolutions

I decided to shake things up here and give my blog a new coat of paint. I've written about my professional resolutions over at Do Some Damage today. But, so that my personal blog will have a record of it, I'll re-post them here:

• Reading resolution for 2011: read more than seven new books.
• Short story resolution for 2011: write more than two stories and submit them.
• Novel resolution for 2011: finish my second novel by Bouchercon in September.

Simple, easy, measurable. Now, comes the hard part: doing them.