End of the Year Roundup!

[desiresdd17]

Well hello again! This is my end of the year blog. 

Anyways... What's that? Wait you say? It's not the end of the year? 

Well, it is for me, sort of...

I'm ending the year now as I prepare to do my last new book for 2012, Michael Mandrake's I Like Em Pretty A New Orleans Noir

Check out my post for my goals of 2012 here about what I accomplished last yr.

I'm very happy to say, I pretty much stuck with my plan and finished stories, did editing, and tried to improve my craft.

In 2012 I had 9 releases, 5 more to come, 3 of which are self pubbed. To date, I've written almost 390K and I finished Nano 3 days ago officially. I'm truly stoked at what I've accomplished this year and looking to do even better. 

I can say I've learned a lot more about the business and the tech side of writing too. I took 4 classes, 2 about plotting and worked closely with a fellow author who is my beta and editor. 

I really didn't sub this year but once and it was rejected but I know what I didn't do and I'm looking forward to putting the book out on my own. 

Now, I'm not intimidated with self publishing. Michael's book has done well in these first 4 weeks, mostly on All Romance. Nah, were not making money like EL James but hey, we're pulling in some royalties. 

As always, I'm optimistic. Having more than one beta helps as well. Nothing wring wrong with an extra pair of eyes to find errors in a story. Going into this coming year, I look forward to completing a few stories as well as revising others to be subbed or self published. Here's a list with some changes going forward into 2013 and 2014. 

Michael Mandrake

Vertigo 2 (revise)

Under the Gun (2, 3, 4)

African Sun book 5

Through the Eyes of Darkness 

Closely Guarded Edits

Untitled Twin Vamp Shifter 

Rawiya

Trois in Treble (revise)

African Sun book 4

Smooth Like Latte sequel

Masquerade (revise)

Lessons in Ink (Revise)

Something About Jayden

That Thing

Sugar Daddy Sequel

BLMorticia

Losing Inhibitions 2

Candyman edit and sequel

You Don't Ask Sequel (Rolled last 3 books into 1)

The Wretched Series

Taming Wild Horses

*** I also have a couple of series the muses will be doing together

Triple Play baseball Antho

College m/m series

Safe Antho

Admittedly, self pubbing has given me confidence to put out a stories on my own, which means it has a good chance of coming out in 2012. I'm also looking to do free reads more often which is the only thing I didn't keep up with.  I did do a few throughout when I signed up for prompts but I'd like to do a long one to be downloaded and shared on the blog. 

So, it's going to be very busy. I get tired just looking at it. Still I'm thankful for all the success and hope that you'll try following along with my progress. 

Thanks for listening and I'll try getting here more often.