Monthly update – December 2016

Over the past several years, I’ve made it a tradition to post my working hours every month to keep myself accountable and to give you some insight into what’s going on behind the scenes, so to say.

I spent the last weeks of December on vacation at a lovely beach with gorgeous weather, so I only now took a look at my December numbers.

Here’s what I’ve been up to in the last month of 2016:

I got the edits back for my latest novel, Falling Hard, which is a medical romance between an interracial couple. Luckily, there wasn’t that much that needed to be changed, so the manuscript is now with my publisher, and all looks good for a publication at the beginning of April.

At the moment, I’m already working on translating Falling Hard into German so that my German readers don’t have to wait so long to be able to read the novel too.

This is what my numbers looked like in 2016:

 Fiction Writing EditingResearchNonfiction WritingMarketing & AdministrationTOTAL




2016 - TOTAL1,256 hours778 hours312 hours187 hours323 hours2,856 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


November83 hours53 hours------27 hours163 hours


December78 hours27 hours------68 hours173 hours

As you can see, I spent a lot of time on “admin stuff” in December. That’s because I sat down and made plans for 2017, 2018, and 2019.

In publishing, you have to plan ahead and set deadlines because you have to book editors, cover artists, and proofreaders ahead of time. So I have to give my publisher an idea of which manuscript to expect from me and when. I already have a pretty good idea what my novels for the next three years will be. Among other things, I’m planning a sequel for the Portland Police Bureau series (Conflict of Interest and Next of Kin) and a continuation of my shape-shifter series (Second Nature and True Nature). There will also be contemporary romances that won’t be part of a series. So I’m hoping to have something new out for each of my readers.

I’m wishing you a 2017 with a lot of happiness, laughter, and good reading material!

Jae

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