May stats and June goals

By Publishing, Writing

I think I missed a month or two of reports. Oh well. Onwards!

May Stats

Short Stories:

  • wrote “The Madness of Survival” for Magical Motorcycles
  • wrote and submitted “Casting the Net” to S&S29 (rejected, and mailed elsewhere)
  • wrote “Old Loom, New Tapestry” for the Valdemar anthology

Publishing:

  • uploaded SFF stories to Omnilit
  • published “The Sound of My Own Voice”
  • designed ebooks for two short stories, “Lost Souls” and “Penny Dreadful”
  • worked on the ebook and POD for my mom’s first book, The Mystery of Woodcliff Hall

Other:

  • Lucky Bat Books work
  • sold “Blame It on the Dog” to To Love a Soldier
  • dealt with contracts for “The Scent of Amber and Vanilla” (Pulse Pounders)
  • reviewed proofs for “Pool Girl: California Dreamin’” (Nine-to-Five Fantasies: Tales of Sex on the Job)
  • continued to scheme on the Uncollected Anthology Series
  • OWN cookbook work as needed
  • read The Valdemar Companion in preparation for writing short story
  • signed up for the California Dreamin’ 2015 conference

June Goals

I’ve had a wee epiphany that I don’t do well making word count goals. I think in terms of project (this short story, this novel scene), plus sometimes the beginning of a project is slower because I’m figuring things out (with a recent short story, I found the actual beginning on the fourth try). I know, in the back of my head, how long something should take to write, so there is kind of a word count thought in there, but…it’s better if I don’t make the number of words The Goal.

Novels:

  • Ghosted: do some brainstorming, order the random scenes, and write 10-20K to patch it all together…and then get it out to the beta readers
  • finish Love, in Stitches (the next Sophie Mouette book): with Teresa
  • possible novellas: On Her Lips, Under Her Skin, The Lord of Wildwood (not sure I can write all three—we’ll see how the month progresses)

Short Stories:

  • there are a couple of possible anthologies I might write for, but I need to focus on novels and novellas, so only if I feel there’s time.

Publishing:

  • PUM print book
  • Woodcliff Hall print and ebook
  • set up Little Kisses Press account at ARe and upload Sophie stuff
  • learn Audible and get one novel set up

Other:

  • two copyediting jobs
  • Lucky Bat Books work
  • prepare to launch the Uncollected Anthology Series
  • OWN cookbook work as needed
  • read and do exercises: Who Dares Wins, Bob Mayer