While most people make New Year’s Resolutions, authors tend to make Writer’s Resolutions. At least I do. Every year I have grand plans to write X number of books. Unfortunately, I have to confess that 2019 was not a good year for me as an author. I had plans, but most of them didn’t happen. A lot was due to having to meet deadlines for my “day job” freelance writing gig, often working 7 days a week to get things turned in on time.
The other reason had to do with some weird health issues that messed with my ability to focus, which as you can imagine, makes creative writing extremely difficult. In many ways, the voices that I've always had in my head basically went “silent”. In the end, I only managed to publish one book, SECOND CHANCE HERO, which is part of the Palm Cove Tales series. AMAZON / APPLE BOOKS / B&N / KOBO
BUT…I am truly hoping to get back on track for 2020. I do have plans and plenty of ongoing projects to keep me busy.
One is the reissue my inspirational series, COVINGTON FALLS CHRONICLE. I got the right back from the original publisher some time ago and created new covers. I’m just doing light editing. I also hope to continue with that series. There are so many characters begging for stories in my quirky Southern town.
I am also working on a fun new series called THE LOST ROYALS about separated siblings who find out they are royalty.
Finally, there is a joint project/series that I plan to publish with one of my author friends. It’s a modern-day take on Cinderella featuring a pair of magic shoes and a cursed Stepmother who might not be as bad as everyone thought.
So those are my plans…now to get writing!
I did put together a Christmas box set with three of my Shellwater Key holiday tales (Finding You At Christmas, Falling For You At Christmas, and Loving You At Christmas). Christmas in Shellwater Key is available on Kindle Unlimited so even though it's January, go ahead and scoop it up now.
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Kristin Wallace is the USA Today Best Selling Author of inspirational and sweet contemporary romance filled with “Love, Laughter and a Leap of Faith”. The Christmas in Shellwater Key boxes et will release this winter.
Kristin Wallace is the USA Today Best Selling Author of inspirational and sweet contemporary romance filled with “Love, Laughter and a Leap of Faith”. The Christmas in Shellwater Key boxes et will release this winter.
4 comments:
Kristin, lifting a glass of cyber-champagne in your direction. Great 2020 Writer Resolutions. Those pesky health issues, especially ones that mess with our brains, do create havoc with our plans. I'm unfortunately speaking from experience and thus released no books at all in 2019! Hope all health issues are in your past and all of your 2020 Writer Resolutions come true.
Happy New Year, Kristin! Congratulations on your 2019 release and best wishes for continued success this year. Those health issues that fog the brain are so inconvenient - I say as I'm just coming out of a migraine that prevented creative thinking for three days & derailed a self-imposed writing deadline. But I was able to read so I cleared a book off my TBR pile. Happy writing!!
Here's to getting back on the writing train, Kristin. I hear you on those derailing things that happen in life to curtail our creativity. No fun - especially when we make plans or have ideas swirling in the recesses of our brains, but somehow they can't make it to the page. Here's to a great 2020 for you!
Glad to hear you have a plan for 2020. Life and health does get in the way of writing, even when it's your full time gig. So, don't beat yourself up too much for not making goals in 2019. I missed a couple of mine as well.
May your 2020 be filled with all kinds of success and enjoyment of every new thing you write.
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