Every year I make a list of what my goals are for the upcoming year and this year is no different. I’ve published two books in the last year and two months, Fairywood Falls and Full Wolf Moon! With some variety of success with both. I’ve found my way into a few reading lists of people that hadn’t read any of my previous work thanks to my take on Appalachian Fantasy and Horror and I’ll continue to expand on those genres in the coming year. Also going a bit further into more Fantasy stories with some shorts and an upcoming release that will take me completely out of the genres people have become use to seeing me write! You can expect to learn more about that in the next couple months. But here is what a few of my goals look like or the upcoming year!
- Widows Ridge – Though I didn’t accomplish much the last half of 2023 as a writer, I did end the last month making a lot of progress on my upcoming release Widows Ridge. In fact, by the end of January it should be off to the editor which keeps me on my schedule of a spring release for the short Novella.
- More Short Stories – I have a number in mind for my short stories to publish through Patreon, but to start with you should start seeing them get released as soon as mid-January on the first one and so forth trying to release a piece of fiction on my Patreon of at least 1000 words every month. Some of these will be free some will be behind the Patreon pay-wall. Some pieces will be completely brand new while others will be flash fiction from years turned into bigger pieces.
- Words Written – Though I didn’t have quite the productive 2023 as I did 2022 or 2021, I once again hope to write around 200,000 words in the coming year to get me back up to speed with those two previous years.
- Editing – Widows Ridge isn’t the only book I’m working on editing, I’m knee deep in editing a steampunk novel as well and hopefully after those two are released, a return to the Howling Moon books!
Just a taste of my goals for the upcoming year! I did post a more detailed list on Patreon!