Hi all,
As promised - here are my writing goals for 2022!
Write four books.
By the end of the year I want to have written the first drafts for the following books:
Original Elementals #2: Maelstrom
Original Elementals #3: Shadowhunter
One of the standalone books that I have planned
Original Elementals #4: Devouring
Publish two books.
I want to publish Years in April and Celestial Plague #1: Nirvana in October.
Get three covers designed.
Celestial Plague #1: Nirvana and Celestial Plague #2: Heaven will have covers by the end of the year. These have been booked through my usual cover designer, Deranged Doctor Design. I also want to get a cover done for the Years reader magnet to match the Elemental Dragons Short Story Collection and Famished.
Self-edit all of the Celestial Plague series.
I want all of the books in the trilogy to be self-edited by the end of the year. They will then go to my editor before coming back to me for the final edit. I'm planning on getting the first two edited by my editor this year and the third one in early 2023.
Write the Years reader magnet.
I've attempted to do this so many times before but found that none of my ideas were working well. I've scrapped this reader magnet so many times and I would like to get it done by about February.
Make two reader magnets available to my newsletter subscribers.
The Years reader magnet will be available first and then Celestial Plague: Seashine. Both of these will be free to download for my newsletter subscribers, as well as my other two reader magnets.
Submit more short stories.
Although I wrote a lot more short stories this year, I only submitted three of them. I would like to submit more to anthologies to expand my publishing portfolio.
The image that will be used for the Years book poster - illustration by chlmerrahh on Fiverr: https://www.fiverr.com/chimerahh?source=order_page_user_message_inner_link
Read 100 books.
I read 200 last year so I think 100 will be doable. I've got loads of books currently sitting around waiting to be read, so I don't think I'll struggle for reading material!
Grow my mailing list.
I would like to have at least 500 subscribers by the end of 2022. I'm already doing plenty of newsletter swaps and group promotions on StoryOrigin, and would like to grow this further.
Focus on Amazon ads more.
I've really struggled with this in the past as my automatic ads never seem to spit out many targets for me. I'd like to give this another try in 2022, especially since I have more books in my backlist now.
Get my books into more libraries.
My books are currently in a few libraries and I would like to get them into more. I would like to send out emails to libraries that are willing to stock indie books and see if they will take any copies of mine.
Make all of my books available in hardcover.
Now that Amazon are giving authors the choice to publish a hardcover book, I'm making sure that all of my future books will be in hardcover! It's my favourite kind of book, and they look gorgeous on my shelves.
Participate in Camp NaNoWriMo and NaNoWriMo.
I like participating in these events as I like seeing my word count go up each day. I'll be participating in all three of these events this year!
I think that's everything that I have planned for 2022! Mentally I'm doing much better than I was last year, so I hope some of these goals will be more achievable! What are your plans for 2022? Let me know in the comments. See you next week!
