Last year I set some pretty lofty goals for myself, and I’m really happy with where I ended up.  I wrote around 535,000 words, published 8 books, and received a contract for 7 more books this year. So while I didn’t reach my 600k goal for 2014, I’m very pleased with how my year went.

2015 has gotten off to a slow, yet super fast start for me. I’ve already had 2 books published with another due in a month (and 5 more at least expected this year, I’m hoping for 8 again, maybe 9). I’ve got some promo events coming up online, and plans to do more promo this year. Yet, I’ve written only 35,000 words so far.

So, I knew it was time to write out my goals and my plans for books to be written this year again. Writing everything down and keeping decent track last year really helped me move forward with my goals in 2014. Here’s hoping doing the same will let me really push off and get moving with 2015!

First, some overall goals to set the tone for the year…

1. I’ve challenged myself to write 600,000 words in 2015.
2. I will build my audience and work harder at promotion – including tours for my three series during the year.
3. I will regain my focus.
4. I will detail at least one of the new series I have listed to play with.
5. I will decide by July if I’ll continue in Lake Point through 2016.

And next is my list of projects. Right now the list is “small” compared to last year. The list will grow once I work on figuring out what other series I will work on/develop this year. The books in ORANGE are current works-in-progress.

1. Free Falling (Holidays in Lake Point 10) – 30k (2,108 done)
2. Love for Hire (Holidays in Lake Point 11) – 30k
3. Haunted Hearts (Holidays in Lake Point 12) – 30k
4. Mistletoe Mixup (Holidays in Lake Point 13) – 30k
5. Into a Mirror Darkly (Morgana Chronicles 1) – 100k (~10k done)
6. Natural Selection – 40k (27,103 done)
7. Switchback (Dominion Falls 6) – 100k
8. Dead Man’s Switch (Dominion Falls 7) – 100k
9. The Virgin Madam (Dominion Falls 5.5) – 20k (This one is possible, but not definite)
10. The Raven (The Tribe #4) – 85k
11. The Child (The Tribe #5) – 85k
12. Escaping Humanity (Co-authoring w/ Mary Terrani) – 100k (22k done)

I’m not taking it easy on myself this year. I am working on getting more promo out and working the lines, but I still want to get my words.  My current goal is to get all of my Lake Point books done early in the year so I can work on everything else without deadlines looming over my head. I’d really like to get the first two books on this list done before the end of February, and the last two by March. Fingers crossed!