{"id":1804,"date":"2018-12-19T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T00:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2018-12-19T17:53:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T00:53:17","slug":"looking-back-at-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/looking-back-at-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back at 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1530\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/tenor.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"220\" \/>Uh.<\/p>\n<p>So.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, okay. I have some pretty good excuses (I was quite sick for several months this year) but the truth is I&#8217;m scared to look back at how I did accomplishing the goals I set for this year because I don&#8217;t think the picture is going to be pretty. But I can&#8217;t do better just by averting my eyes, right? So here goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Goals that are in bold are ones I accomplished.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Finalize the Author Guide for Pen and Kink Publishing and begin distributing it<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yay! One down!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><del>Formalize the style guide for Pen and\u2013you know what? Nah, I kinda like having \u2018Something like a style guide\u2019<\/del><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apparently I changed my mind about this goal somewhere along the way. And good for me. I still kinda like having &#8216;Something like a style guide&#8217; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Edit and publish \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2EHH31U\">The Longest Night<\/a>\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh hey, I did this too! I also got a new matching cover for &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2EB8HNW\">Circles Within Circles<\/a>&#8221; and re-launched it. Plus I gave the series a title. It&#8217;s now called &#8216;Prairie Magic&#8217; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Edit and publish \u201cThe Coolest Wife Ever\u201d now known as \u201cThe Switch\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I made an effort but it turned out the story was just too broken. I&#8217;ve shelved this one indefinitely. It&#8217;s got potential, but I&#8217;m not sure how to fix it right now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Publish a collection\u00a0of all the \u201cShe\u2019s on the Bottom\u201d stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did not do this. I&#8217;m not sure why I didn&#8217;t do this? Perhaps I just forgot. Originally I was waiting to add &#8220;The Switch&#8221; to the collection, but when I shelved that I could have moved forward on this. Oh well. A goal for next year, perhaps?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finish writing and editing the untitled novelette\/novella? about Ben and Maggie<\/li>\n<li>Write at least one more story in the Paranormal Circus series.<\/li>\n<li>Write and share a holiday-themed story set in the Paranormal Circus series<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No progress on any of these because I got wrapped up in the Prairie Magic series instead. The good news is I wrote 50,000 words on book #3 for that series for NaNoWriMo, which ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217;. The story isn&#8217;t done yet but I think it&#8217;s shaping up nicely. Another goal for next year \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Successfully publish and launch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2R3ZP9D\"><em>Magic Spark<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Successfully publish and launch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2R3ZP9D\"><em>Magic Ember<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Successfully publish and launch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2R3ZP9D\"><em>Magic Flame<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The series is out and delighting readers (and me, to be honest). I loved working with those ladies to bring their stories to the world and look forward to doing it again. Soon. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Successfully publish and launch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2EEHxWD\"><em>Triskaidekaphilia 3: Transformed<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Done and done. The editor put together an awesome anthology.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Acquire a new project for Pen and Kink<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t just acquire one new project, I acquired four. Well, I guess that depends on how you define &#8216;project&#8217; but I was super excited to edit and publish <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2BvQldg\">INKarnate, INKapable, INKurable<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2BvQldg\"><em>INKonsolable<\/em><\/a> by Mara Malins. They are all amazing (and the first one is available for free).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Write at least one short story and submit it for publication rather than publishing it myself<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*sad trombone sound*<\/p>\n<p>Though I am working on a collaborative project with someone&#8230; sadly the story has hit my desk and kind of gotten stalled there but I&#8217;ll get back to it soon. I will!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Write the next title in the \u2018<em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Sgy9f6\">Running on Empty<\/a>&#8216;<\/em>\u00a0serial<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t written anything new for this, but I did plan out a sort of arc that the series could take, so that should count for something, right? I think so.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Phew. That wasn&#8217;t as bad as I&#8217;d expected, actually. I can accept this progress. It was pretty decent.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to have to carefully set my goals for next year, though, so as to make sure I get to make a few more of them bold \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uh. So. The thing is&#8230; Well, okay. I have some pretty good excuses (I was quite sick for several months this year) but the truth is I&#8217;m scared to look back at how I did accomplishing the goals I set &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/looking-back-at-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[276,299,251,242],"tags":[306,84,211,310,228,313],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enchanted","category-mara-malins","category-nanowrimo","category-pen-and-kink-publishing","tag-enchanted","tag-goals","tag-pen-and-kink-publishing","tag-prairie-magic","tag-running-on-empty","tag-transformed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}