Welcome to December, the
last month of this lovely year.
It’s also the time of year
when we stress about how the hell we’re going to find the time to do everything,
while buying present (and can we really afford it all?)
It’s the time of year we
wonder where the fuck the year went.
It’s even a time one starts
to reflex on the past year, one what little we’ve managed to do and think of
next year as being better. As the year everything you want will be done.
SO week one REFLECTING ON 2015
This year was an enlightening
one for me. I realised I need to write something new and different. That I can’t
just produce the same book repeatedly. It saddens me but the realisation allows
me to know my limitations. However on the other hand I don’t realise this and
though it seems 5 books (this is while reading too) is a limit of the same
thing for me I tend to have series that got beyond that.
I have re-realised my love
of YA and am starting to do things about that. This is a next year starting but
the ideas; the reality of this though started this year. I’m excited. I really
can’t wait.
I have come to a realisation
that until my kids are only (say 5 years at the most) I won’t really be a full
time writer. Once my children can get themselves off to school without my help
that’s when I become full time because I can actually set a schedule that works
for me, not one that works around my children. This is saying that I work better at nights. I
like nights better and this will be reflected in that time. As of now, I just
can’t give it my all. I am half, or part-time author. This I think is the most important
realisation of this year. I am not a full time author I am a full time mother
with a part-time job as an author while they are at school.
This means that even though
I have always had it in my mind that they come first, that they truly do now.
and they are just too young for me not to be there, to be with them full time.
This isn’t to say things
will change. I’m still able to pull all-nighters (or a Saturday night) like I
have for the last 5 years, but it means I will allow myself a break when the
kids need me more. When I need to be a mother more.
I have decided, because well
the above, I guess. I will only publish up to 6 books a year in MM and try for
3 in YA. I think that the MM genre needs to learn to settle themselves you can’t
complain about the editing while demanding that your fav authors publish a
books every month. It’s not possible, and really cliffhanger or not, in the het
world you’d still have to wait and effing year. I think we’ve gotten spoiled
and as readers, we are the reason that the books we are buying have declined so
much. So we need to learn patients again, need to learn to lay off. Maybe rather than demanding another book from
our favourite authors we could, I don’t know, read a couple of those 2K+ books
you have in your tbr pile.
I’m going to plan for 6
books a year. If things happen they do, but I will plan and write 6 books a
year for the following year – oh yeah that’s another thing, I’m not going to be
writing in the year I publish a book. I want to allow my editor a year to edit
my stuff. I just… I can’t deal with the stress and so I’m not going to.
What I have PUBLISHED
this year
This was published and pulled within a month I believe. I really like
the story (and it will be back up, I’m hoping next year). I changed it so it
wouldn’t be banned, and I liked how’s it’s changed in a sense that I’ve created
a series from it, and I really love the series. however I’m not going to be
able to publish it through ARe anymore, so should I have bothered changing it??
Lots a prob with this book, lots of confusing and hatred and embarrassment
but next one, which will be coming, is going to be great. I love it, and
honestly I do love it now. I do think it’s better. And I can’t wait to write
more of this series. or just for you guys to read more
15/March – Moonlit Wolves 7: Protecting My Werewolf
This is the end of the first arc for the series. I’m not sure if you’ll
get another book from this series anytime soon. I just…there is so many probs
with this series I just can’t find the love to write more.
24/May – My Kevin
I love this book, and I got it edited and re-realised.
22/June
– A Road Worth Travelling, part 1
You WILL be getting the whole version of this book next year. I wanted
to do it in parts and I have tried it multiple times there just isn’t enough
story to put it into parts without at least 2 of them being cliff-hanger no
matter if I push it forward or not.
this is also written for the Goddreads MM Romance Group
I put in a short 300 word story as well as a cover to this contest. The
cover I submitted came 4th, which is very cool.
My first go at m-preg. I’m hoping for 2 released next year, which will
be interesting. I’d like to publish 2 of them a year, and so far I have 5 books
in the series.
I published this promotional collection because April couldn’t get it
printed, but that’s what it’s meant for.
This is a cute little anthology of all those short story that go along
with the series. I wanted originally to publish them into the books, however
that wasn’t advised.
THIS WEEK I hope to write. I haven’t
for the last 2 weeks and it’s not a pleasant place inside my head when I can’t
write.
I also plan on doing a read
threw of The Way Life Turns,
highlighting areas April and I need to work with in order to go through and
make right before it goes into beta editing. But it’s looking okay, not as much
as I hope wrong with it. However, I do think, our voices are a bit off. However
the events and the time period’s we are both dealing with allow for that.
I also need to do some promo graphic's for Moonlit Escapades
And I believe that’s it. Thanks
for sticking with me this long.
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