Did I Hit My Goals?

What does the poster for Man of Steel have to do with this post?  Nothing.  I'm going to see it this weekend and looks awesome.

Anyway, I wanted to do a little recap of a post I made last July.  I put some goals up of what I wanted to accomplish through March of this year.  Here we go.



1.  I'll be releasing my current work in progress, which is still untitled, in August.  It's a horror novel based around a haunted church in Appalachia being investigated by a paranormal television show.
This book ended up being THE GATE.  I not only released an ebook and paperback, but also an audiobook.  Mission accomplished.

2.  Next I'll be writing two sequels to Gehenna back-to-back.  The trilogy will hopefully be completed by Halloween, which is an insane pace for me, but that's the goal.  I've got a few killer ideas for some zombie madness that I think everyone will enjoy.  The trilogy will be called  West of Hell .Nailed it.  Well, almost.  I released Tartarus in September, on target, and Sheol in November.  A month later.  Whoops.  But still, I got the book out in my general time frame.
3.  At some point while I'm working on the Gehenna sequels, I'll also be writing a short story to be included in collection featuring several authors.  The proceeds from that collection will all go to charity.  The story I'm contributing will most likely be a short story based around Ash, and will be a prequel to Echoes.  That could change, but that's the direction I'm heading right now.Got this one finished too.  My first story was rejected because it was too scary.  So I wrote a YA type of story and it went into the Holiday Wishes anthology.
4.  After completing  West of Hell , I'm going to write the much awaited sequel to Echoes titled  Reverb .  If Echoes was The Terminator, then Reverb will be T2.FAIL.  I started writing this, didn't like it, and stopped.  I still plan on writing multiple sequels starring Asher Benson, but I don't have a firm plan on when.  HOWEVER, when I stopped writing Reverb, I started another novel named THE DARK.  It ended up becoming my bestseller, by far.  So the fail turned into a win.

5.  With a lot of work and a little luck, I'll finish the Echoes sequel by Christmas.  At the start of the new year, I'll be co-authoring a book with Smelle Casey.  There is no title yet, but we hope to release that in March.
Surpisingly, we released ACES HIGH in February, a month early.  BOOM.
 
On top of my posted goals, I also wrote two short stories that were included in the Apocalypse and Twist anthologies.  I'm really pleased with both stories, considering the ideas came to me because of the central theme of the books.

So that wraps up last years goals.  In the next few days, I'll make another post with the coming years schedule.  Lots and lots of stuff will be coming your way.