A Year of Firsts
2012 has been a year of firsts for me. I reached 50k words for the first time, I self published my book for the first time and more importantly I held my book in my hand for the first time. I used InDesign to create a full blown book that looks pretty damn good if I do say so myself all for the first time and just yesterday my blog got 101 hits in one day, for the first time. I have almost a hundred followers on twitter, and for the first time in my life I'm coming to have a small fan-base surrounding my book. I'm making money from my book and I've received some pretty amazing reviews from people who've read the book. It's also the first time I've ever made an ebook with the intent to sell, and worked very hard to sell something directly on the Apple store (or rather the iBookstore--which is still under review. So many weeks later)
This has been an exciting and sometimes nerve wracking year of firsts for me. After the year is over I will have self published three books. The entire Secrets of Witches trilogy. I will have written, 225k words between 3 books (maybe a little more or less depending on how the final two books turn out). The simple fact that I've set the goal for myself to write a 75k word first draft, for the first time in my life is incredibly exciting, the fact that I've set rather ambitious (and to some rather psychotic) publishing goals for the last two books is for me also exciting.
Not in book news but in personal life news, 2012 is the year I decided to become a redhead. Not, orangish, natural red, more like an auburn with burgundy accents. I've been dying my hair for many years, not many people know, but I believe I've been dying it at least since eighth grade and at the time I was full brown-black. (I don't entirely remember but I believe my natural hair color is dirty blond or a light brown). Either way, I didn't care for the color and for years I had been dying it darker. I eventually allowed myself to stick with a chocolatey brown, then a somewhat lighter brown, but it was only really at the beginning of this year that I decided I wanted to go for auburn. Mostly in an effort to have some sort of change. 2012 will also be the very first year I vote. I've been legally able to vote for three years now, but being that the Presidential race was over, and I never found the time to register, up until now I've never voted in any kind of political capacity. And last, but certainly not least, 2012 will be the year that I am officially 21 and of legal drinking and gambling age (which living in Vegas, makes this a pretty big year). I have no actual desire to gamble, but the point is, by the end of this year I will no longer be limited by what I can and cannot do in a state that I have lived in frankly far too long.
This has been an exciting and sometimes nerve wracking year of firsts for me. After the year is over I will have self published three books. The entire Secrets of Witches trilogy. I will have written, 225k words between 3 books (maybe a little more or less depending on how the final two books turn out). The simple fact that I've set the goal for myself to write a 75k word first draft, for the first time in my life is incredibly exciting, the fact that I've set rather ambitious (and to some rather psychotic) publishing goals for the last two books is for me also exciting.
Not in book news but in personal life news, 2012 is the year I decided to become a redhead. Not, orangish, natural red, more like an auburn with burgundy accents. I've been dying my hair for many years, not many people know, but I believe I've been dying it at least since eighth grade and at the time I was full brown-black. (I don't entirely remember but I believe my natural hair color is dirty blond or a light brown). Either way, I didn't care for the color and for years I had been dying it darker. I eventually allowed myself to stick with a chocolatey brown, then a somewhat lighter brown, but it was only really at the beginning of this year that I decided I wanted to go for auburn. Mostly in an effort to have some sort of change. 2012 will also be the very first year I vote. I've been legally able to vote for three years now, but being that the Presidential race was over, and I never found the time to register, up until now I've never voted in any kind of political capacity. And last, but certainly not least, 2012 will be the year that I am officially 21 and of legal drinking and gambling age (which living in Vegas, makes this a pretty big year). I have no actual desire to gamble, but the point is, by the end of this year I will no longer be limited by what I can and cannot do in a state that I have lived in frankly far too long.
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