First Goals Met // Row80

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First Goals Met // Row80

~ ROW80 – Round 1 – Sunday Check-In Week 4 ~

Goal #1: Complete Trading Tides (Driftwood Deeds sequel, ~30k). ♥ On track.

Almost magically, kind of flew through the last third of Trading Tides this week and I just put down the last sentence. I wouldn’t call this goal completed until I let it rest and do one or two editing runs, but it’s definitely way on track. I wrote a whopping 15,500 words on this project, and it came in at almost 35k, all of it written this month. Mostly I’m just crazy proud I finished it in just one month, which I’d hoped for but was a bit unsure about all the same.

Next week, I’m pretty I’m gonna let this rest and see if I have enough distance in two week’s time. I want to to get this to my publisher asap .

Goal #2: Complete After Life Lessons Edits + get it ready for publication. ♥ On track.

Nothing really new to report. I’m still soliciting reviews and blog spots and am really excited about the amount of feedback we’re receiving. That takes up a lot of my time writing emails and putting together information for all different kinds of people.

I made sure everything is ready to go for the blog tour in two weeks, made a lot of graphics and decided on excerpts etc. Mostly clerical stuff .

Next week, I want to go over the formatted copy for one last big check for spelling and formatting issues, and also send out all the info packages I prepared for the promo part of the blog tour.

Goal #3: Complete By The Light Of The Moon Edits + get ready for publication.

I received a letter, officially reverting the rights back to me, so I put the new cover up on goodreads and had a look at the scrivener file (after some drama of me thinking it was all gone. Heart-attack time lol).

However, I have decided to edit a different book first instead. There’s a new #mswl event at the end of February and I wrote this lgbt YA novel last year, that I would really like to try and find an agent for. So… I’ll try to get that ready for querying in the next few weeks, and I might actually push By the Light of the Moon into March. I’m not sure yet. I just know that I definitely don’t want to re-release it before After Life Lessons – and that would push it into May. So I have ample time.

Goal #4: Complete Forest Fires edits + start shopping it around.

Still no changes. And as Lorrie is moving house and already rather overworked, I don’t think we’ll get to it next week either.

Goal #5: Write a total of 80k (on my own) in that time. ♥ On track.

Not counting the work I did on rewriting After Life Lessons with Lorrie, I wrote 35k in the last four weeks (28 days) – so I’m about 7k ahead on his .