Resolutions: 2022 Edition

Happy New Year, everyone.

I had a look back at my list of things I wanted to do in 2021… and I didn’t really do most of them. To be fair on myself, I did do the big one: publish the second Boiling Seas book (which you should definitely read). Unfortunately the doing of that one took up most of my creative time, and a very busy year of work soaked up most of what was left.

So it’s hopefully a slightly more achievable list this year:

1 – Do Another Book

It might have been published at the eleventh hour, but I did manage to get Nightingale’s Sword out in 2021, which means I’ve technically managed to keep up my streak of one book per year. I’d like to continue that. It won’t be Boiling Seas 3, because I haven’t even started that yet, but I have a few other manuscripts lying around that ought to be serviceable enough after a good polish. If I can, I’ll get it out before December this time too.

2 – Write Reviews

Reviews. I did, at least, manage to read some of the books I promised other authors I’d review. I just need to gather my thoughts and get them on paper. I’ve also got a bunch of other books and games and shows that I’d like to ramble about at some point, so I’ll see what I can put out.

3 – Write Short Stories

Again, I did do some of this one last year: I wrote several short pieces. Well, I say short. They weren’t novels, but they weren’t short enough (or good enough) to see the light of day properly. So this year I’m going to a) write some more, and b) actually plan them out first so I can keep them concise and submit them. And from there, who knows?

4 – Agents

This is the really big one for this year. Querying agents is hard work. I tried a few times last year, but didn’t get anywhere (not that I was really expecting to). But it’d be a nice thing to at least try some more. Traditional publishing is a competitive hellscape, and the likelihood of anything coming of it is next to nothing… but you never know, eh?

Let’s see how we go, in any case.