2014 Year in Review

What? Year’s over already?

Practically. Okay. What happened?

The year started out rocky with the death of a laptop and the scramble for a new one in February. In March I did an interview with Simon Whistler over at the Rocking Self Publishing podcast, and that was a lot of fun.

I experimented a little with a serial format with Infernal Revelation, a four part story released simultaneously to a positive reception but dismal sales. Unless they pick up tremendously I don’t think there’s the audience for a second season, which is too bad, because I have some great ideas for it.

Speaking of Serials, I started the Hero Historia web serial and ran through two seasons of it, the first released as an ebook, the second in revisions.

I released Grief as an audiobook. I released a book on indie author marketing, Sell Yourself, Not Your Books, which sums up how I feel about promotion.

The big news, I feel, was the establishment of the Burning Brigid production company with my co-producer Kat O’Connor. This gives me a vehicle to turn my screenplays into movies, something I’m super-excited about, particularly with the production of the Sleep Study web series next year.

I set up a Patreon for myself, for readers who want to support me directly in exchange for books. A few people have signed up for it, and I give them exclusive content from time to time. They’ll be getting snippits from Ghosts of Shaolin as I revise it, for example.

I transitioned Book Nouveau from a text-based book blog to a booktube vlog. That’s been fun. I made the effort to make more videos and actually developed my own youtube channel.

I participated in the 2014 Readathon, and wrote an 18-part series of NaNoWriMo advice.

It was a busy year. Didn’t get as much written as I’d have liked, perhaps, but I had a lot on my plate.

How was your 2014?

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