Happy New Year! Jessica E. Subject’s 2015 In Review ~ Enter to WIN $10 GC!

Hello everyone! I hope you are doing well after celebrating the New Year. It’s now 2016 and time for me to review my goals from last year and set some new ones.

At the beginning of last year, I’d hoped to have another 1Night Stand story published, have another audio book produced, write a story for an F/F anthology I’d been invited to be a part of, write Alien Attraction, finish Always Her Wingman, and write Alien Generations: Lindsay.

Well, here’s how I did….

My 8th 1Night Stand story released in April, called Her Alien Hero
I had three more audio books release, The Star Princess , Unknown Futures , and Beneath the Starry Sky
I wrote Cosmic Sutra , which released as part of the First Ladylove anthology
Alien Attraction released in November, completing the Alien Next Door series .  The complete collection is already available in print, and releases in ebook January 11.
Always Her Wingman has been shelved. I’m not sure for how long.
Alien Generations: Lindsay will not release. I’ve replotted this story with much help and conversations with Deborah Cooke and Zoe York. The new series will now be GALACTIC DEFENDERS, with the first book being BRYCE . I have started writing this story and will release it in 2016. Hopefully the second story in the series as well.
I wrote and released Taken by the Billionaire Alien Next Door
I put together a collection of my short stories and published them in the anthology Cosmic Desires .
In 2015, I self-published my first print books, with Cosmic Desires , Alien Adoration , and Alien Next Door: The Complete Series
I received the rights back to, and re-released Accidental Romance , Alien Lover , Crash Landing , and The Power of Three .
I also wrote Alien Kisses at Midnight , a short alien romance, and sent it to my newsletter subscribers on December 26, 2015.
I took a course through RWA with Stephanie Bond on plotting for romance. It has certainly helped. I took a course with Meredith Bond on formatting for ebook and print. Amazing. Both have changed the way I do things for the better.

    

    

  

    

Goals for 2016

My major writing goal this year is to develop my Galactic Defenders series. I want to release Bryce , and have Yager written by the end of the year. There may be a couple short stories released in the mix as well.
After receiving the rights back to Made For Her , I am in the process of revising and expanding it to release this year.
After receiving the rights back to An Unexpected Return , I plan to revise and expand this story before releasing it later in the year.
MONTHLY SPECIALS ~ Each month, at least one of my stories will be marked down to 99¢. This doesn’t include those already selling at that price.
Blog/Website Revision ~ I am in the process of rebranding my website. It will happen gradually, but everything will start to look the same, and bleed into social media as well.
Blog Topics ~ While this started last year, it will continue into this year. While I will still have guest authors on my blog, most of the content will focus on my own books, and what I’m writing. I am hoping to include more fun posts as well, about sci-fi music, movies, television, books I’ve read, etc.
READ MORE! I didn’t read near enough books in 2015. While I did finish some, there were many more I started, but could not finish.

Here are my favorite titles I read or listened to in 2015:

Legend by Marie Lu

Reboot by Amy Tintera

The Martian by Andy Weir

Gravity by Melissa West

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancy

Stirring Up Dirty by Kacey Hammell

Marcus by Anna Hackett

Stranded with the Cyborg by Cara Bristol

The Taking by Kimberly Derting

Tell me, what are your goals for 2016?

 

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