2014 Goals Results

One of the things I started doing in 2014 was posting my monthly goals.  It's worked really well, so I figured I might try doing the same thing for the entire year.  Here is how I did in 2014.  Look for my 2015 goals to come out in a few days! 

Book Releases:

• Paint, Guns, Money, and Love came out in February and ran as a serial story with LT3.  It came out in ebook and print few months later in June. 
• The Oracle's Hatchling, book two in The Oracle Series, came out in ebook in March. 
• Wings of the Stars, part of LT3's A Loose Screw collection, came out in ebook and print in April. 
• Heart's Tournament, part of LT3's Won't Back Down anthology, came out in ebook and print in May.
• Heartbeat, part of LT3's Satisfaction Guaranteed anthology, came out in ebook and print in September. 

Books Ready for Release:

• Road to Home is edited and ready to to arrive in stores in January. 
• The Oracle's Golem, book three in The Oracle series, is also ready to be released in January. 

Submitted Manuscripts:

• The Oracle's Sprite, book four in The Oracle series, has been submitted to LT3. 
• Dragon Consultant, book one of my new Supernatural Consultant series, was also submitted to LT3.

Completed Manuscripts:

• Thunderbird, my submission for LT3's Intertwined collection call, is back from a beta reader and almost ready to be submitted. 
  
• Ground of Insurrection, my submission for LT3's Devil's Land collection call, is in edits. 
• Dragon Deception, book two in my Supernatural Consultant series, is completed and in need of editing. 
• Magnified, the longest story I've ever written at 60k words, was also completed.  I want to finish writing the sequel, Justified, before getting Magnified ready to submit.

Writing Progress:

• Dragon Detective and Dragon Spy, the next books in my Supernatural Consultant series are growing daily. 
• The Oracle's (Water) and The Sentinel's Prophesy, the next books in The Oracle series, are also taking form. 
• Kelpie Blue wins the award for the most progress made this year.  It's only reached 20k words, but it took the most research and planning of any of my stories to get there. 
  

Other Accomplishments:

• I started posting monthly goals to keep myself on task and have had a fair amount of success with it so far. 
• I created a monthly newsletter to help keep readers and fans informed.