Hi all,
It’s once again time for my year in review! I tried not to be so hard on myself this year as I wanted to be kinder to myself. I also wanted to make my goals more achievable, but also giving me time to do things other than writing. Without further ado…
Write three books.
This year I wrote:
Empty Skies #2: Freezing Constellations
Empty Skies #3: Burning Constellations
Game of Air and Lightning
Not quite the books that I originally planned to write this year, but I was getting a bit burned out by Original Elementals.
Publish two books.
Celestial Plague #4: Hell was published in April and Curse of Anubis #1: The Plague’s Hope was published in October.
Re-name the Curse of Anubis books.
This one I’m pretty proud of! It took me a while to come up with new names for all the books, but I’m so glad that I did. For those who don’t remember, the new names are:
The Plague’s Hope
The Blazing Serpent
The Frozen Eye
The Dead Kingdom
Get two book covers designed.
I actually managed five this year! Two you’ve already seen but you’ll have to wait to see the other three.
Self-edit two books in the Curse of Anubis series.
The first two books have not only been self-edited, but have also been through my editor.
Finish the Curse of Anubis Short Story Collection and make it available to my subscribers.
This collection is now available to anyone who signs up to my mailing list!
Read 100 books.
This year I read 190! I almost hit 200, but didn’t want to push myself too much.
Work on my book sales.
I’ve changed a lot of my blurbs, categories and descriptions on Amazon. I’ve also started running more ads to generate more sales. I’m hoping to scale this up in 2025.
Create a Patreon.
I’ve created an account and I’m proud of myself for getting that far! This one has been so hard for me to do and I have such a block when it comes to it. I think I’m just worried that I’ll pour all this work into something that no-one wants. I’ll see if I go any further with this in 2025.
Participate in Camp NaNoWriMo and NaNoWriMo.
Due to the controversy this year, I didn’t participate in NaNoWriMo. Instead I’m now writing using TrackBear, and I will continue to use that going forward.
That’s it for this week! Next week make sure you check back to check out my goals for 2025. See you next Sunday.
