Hi all,
It’s time to take a look at my goals for 2025 and see what I achieved. I wanted to push myself a little bit this year and I think on the whole it was manageable. I didn’t hit all of my goals, but that’s okay!
Write three books.
This year I wrote the first drafts of:
Game of Air and Lightning
The Severed Pantheon
Cloud’s Core
It was the year of standalone books, it seems!
Publish two books.
This year I published Curse of Anubis #2: The Blazing Serpent and Curse of Anubis #3: The Frozen Eye.
Get two covers designed.
The covers for Curse of Anubis #3: The Frozen Eye and Curse of Anubis #4: The Dead Kingdom were both designed by Deranged Doctor Design this year.
Self-edit two books.
The last two books in the Curse of Anubis series were self-edited and sent off to my editor, ready for publication.
Send all my reader magnets to my editor.
All of them were edited by her and I feel like the stories have really improved!
Read 100 books.
This year I read 121!
Write the Game of Air and Lightning reader magnet.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get this one done. I’ve had so many ideas for it that I’ve started writing and then scrapped not too far in. I’m still trying to find the perfect story to write.
Change my writing schedule.
My writing months are now March, July and November. It works a lot better now that they’re more stretched out.
Write 12 short stories.
I initially planned to write a short story a month, but I forgot about the months that I’d be writing books. So, I managed to write ten short stories this year. My newsletter subscribers have read most of them.The stories are:
Affection
Blue Once More
Fire Dragon
Neglected Vote
Red
Run-Along
The Bus
The Last Excavation
Two Paths
Unnamed
Research different kinds of mythology.
I’ve done a lot of research this year into Japanese mythology and Celtic mythology. I haven’t come up with any concrete story ideas for either yet, but I’m hoping the more I read about it, the more ideas will come to me.
That’s it for this week! Next week I’ll be posting about my goals for 2026, so you don’t want to miss it. See you next Sunday.
