An Author’s Random Musing: End of the Year

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Well, NaNoWriMo has come to an end. I can report that I reached about 40K, counting some rebel words of blog posts/interviews/finishing a short story. So, while I did not reach my goal of 50K words in a month, I have a pretty good start on my first YA adventure/mystery/historical story.

As this is the last month of the year, it seems a good time for a brief review.  In January, one of my books became an audiobook for the first time. To listen to it, (since the audiobook rights belong to CleanReads, I didn’t have anything to do with the production), I downloaded Audible and so this became the year of audiobooks for me.

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I’d never listened to audiobooks before this. I knew they existed, but they’d never interested me. In the past year, however, I have listened to a total of 18 audiobooks. That is about 150 hrs altogether. Full-cast audiobooks have become my new favorite thing.

About the middle of the year, two of my book rights were returned to me at my request. I am happy to announce that A Chaotic Courtship has been re-released after six months of not being available. The new cover is amazing, and after new edits, it is polished like never before! There is also a print copy, which is something I love having available for my readers.

I am not sure when Not My Idea will be available. I’d like to have the second book close to finished, but I haven’t been able to face Lucas’ tales of misfortune.

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In other good news, I released my first YA book in September. My Hands Hold My Story has a special place in my heart. I wrote it for my younger sister, who works with those who are deaf. A sequel is definitely in the works, but my writing time has been all over the place for the last half of this year.

So. It has been a busy year. I look forward to seeing what happens in 2019!