2019’s Writing Goals

Happy New Year, everyone!

Now that the New Year is upon us, what are my writing goals for 2019?

1.) Write a million words of new fiction.

That should be doable, since I did about 1.35 million in 2018.

2.) Finish the SEVENFOLD SWORD series.

SEVENFOLD SWORD will have twelve books, and I’m about a third of the way through #10. If all goes well, the series will reach its epic conclusion sometime this summer!

3.) Finish the MALISON series.

MALISON will only have four books, and I want to wrap it up about the same time I finish SEVENFOLD SWORD. I’ll be giving the MALISON books for free to newsletter subscribers, so be sure to subscribe to my newsletter!

4.) Start a new epic fantasy series.

Once I finished SEVENFOLD SWORD, I want to start a new epic fantasy series. It’s currently in the early planning phases, so more details to come!

5.) Write at least two more books of the GHOST NIGHT series.

I want to start GHOST IN THE VAULT sometime this spring, and get at least two new Caina books published in 2019.

6.) Start the new CLOAK MAGE series.

Nadia Moran will return! She has lots to do. 🙂

7.) More self-published audiobooks.

I would like to do more self-published audiobooks in 2019. I’m not going to make any promises, because the process is 1.) complicated, and 2.) has a lot of factors that are outside of my control. But if all goes well, I will have a few more of my books in audio by the end of 2019.

8.) Continue to bring out new books in paperback.

Thanks to Vellum, it’s a simple process. A lot easier than when I used to have to prepare the paperbook layout by hand!

9.) Secret bonus goal.

More on that later. 🙂

But this is what I would like to do writing-wise in 2019, God willing. But as we all know, man plans, God laughs.

Now let’s have a little preview of 2019! Here is the cover image for CLOAK OF DRAGONS, Nadia Moran’s next adventure and the first book of the new CLOAK MAGE series! I want to start writing that sometime in January.

-JM