Monthly update – October 2016
October and Halloween are over, and we’re heading toward Christmas and the year’s end already! Hard to believe, isn’t it?
October was a record month for me. I had several new books out:
My contemporary lesbian romance Heart Trouble is now available through all major online bookstores.
I also published two nonfiction guides for writers: Show, Don’t Tell and Point of View.
And my holiday-themed romance novel Under a Falling Star is now available as an audiobook!
So, as you can see, I had a lot of reasons to celebrate in October–and I did…
with cheesecake! Yum!
I also spent most of one week at the book fair in Frankfurt, the largest book event in the world.
Oh
, I almost forgot: Another reason to celebrate was that my historical romance Shaken to the Core received an honorable mention at the Rainbow Awards, which means that it’s a finalist.
When I wasn’t traveling or eating cheesecake, I mostly worked on my new novel, Falling Hard. I just finished the first draft, and now I’m revising it. It ended up at about 120,000 words, so it’ll be a typical long Jae novel with a lot of time to get to know the characters and enjoy their interactions.
So here are the numbers for October:
Fiction Writing EditingResearchNonfiction WritingMarketing & AdministrationTOTAL
2016 - TOTAL1,095 hours698 hours312 hours187 hours228 hours2,520 hours
January100 hours66 hours24 hours46 hours15 hours251 hours
February144 hours74 hours43 hours1 hour19 hours281 hours
March65 hours80 hours95 hours---13 hours253 hours
April116 hours87 hours26 hours---11 hours240 hours
May136 hours54 hours---79 hours14 hours283 hours
June108 hours101 hours---4 hours21 hours234 hours
July67 hours66 hours---46 hours36 hours215 hours
August48 hours80 hours78 hours11 hours68 hours285 hours
September149 hours49 hours46 hours---13 hours257 hours
October162 hours41 hours------18 hours221 hours
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Jae
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