Blogging is the bane of my existence!
Why? I don’t know. I create stories and marketing content for a living. You’d think stopping for a few minutes to create a blog for my very own website would be simple, right?
Wrong.
2019 wound up being a crazy, chaotic, cacophony of crucial choices culminating in copious comeuppance. (Say that five times real fast).
What does that mean in real English? 2019 was a whirlwind of big decisions and life-altering events that have changed my life forever – for the good!
As a result, the following happened (crib note version):
- I began running the American Night Writers Association (ANWA) online chapters, which exploded from three to eighteen in a matter of months.
- I became an assistant at Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers (WIFYR), got to work with J. Scott Savage (an AMAZING author and class-act individual), and work on the marketing for the writing conference.
- Became head of WIFYR’s marketing for the 2020 conference.
- Was added to the Board of Directors for ANWA.
- Was offered mentorship by award-winning novelist (several times over) Carol Lynch Williams, and have been working with her for the past several months to improve my craft.
- Had interest in my unpublished manuscripts by two different publishers.
- Published my first sweet romance novel (under a different pen name).
- Finished another book which is nearly finished editing.
- Am half-way through three more books.
What didn’t happen in 2019 that I wanted to happen?
I didn’t get my books out. I decided to get both of my four-book series professionally edited before I self-published them. Four of them are done, however, because they are intertwining series’, each change early on in the storyline creates a domino effect of changes that need to be tweaked throughout the series. But, when I’m done, there’s someone who wants to look at them (eek!) and that’s always a big motivator.
Now, to find the time…
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