I really
started my ‘published’ writing career in May of 2013. The goals I set for my
second year of publishing have been completed and I wanted to review them here
for posterity and my own feeling of accomplishment. Then I will set some goals
for this year as an annual event from January to December 2015.
In 2014,
I set out to place all my currently published Amazon books on
Smashwords as well, because I wanted to have them widely available to everyone. Some of
the Effortless English folks do not have access to Amazon in their countries.
I am pleased to say I almost accomplished this. I have all the Farloft
Chronicles and The Twin Cities volumes on Smashwords. We 3 will go up in
February and the Star Traveler Series will follow one by one. All of them will
be on by the end of 2015. There was a good reason for delaying the posting of
the Star Traveler Series. I am having new covers made for them and they are a
knock out. The artist is Sherry D. Ramsey and I am delighted with her work.
I added
something to my workload that I had not anticipated for 2014. I put all the
books except for the final four Scifi (still processing covers) into
print-on-demand at the CreateSpace site. This has been a boon in the since that
it has created more sales. Seems everyone wanted The Farloft Chronicles in
paper. And, I must admit, Farloft looks fabulous in print.
I planned
to do an interview a month on either a blog, radio, podcast, or website, etc. I
did, in fact, accomplish this goal in full and then some. I did so many
interviews and guest blogs that I decided to create a site for them, Interviews & Guest Blog Posts so readers could just go on and poke around a bit. Two of my
favorites were the podcast with Cherrie McKenzie of Co-Active Dreams and my tea with Charlotte Ashlock . You
can read and listen to all of them on the site, if you so desire.
And in
2014 I wrote. I did not finish the seventh volume in the Star Travelers Series,
but I did add many more books I had not anticipated and with the Scifi series
coming out in paper with new covers, volume #7 will be widely anticipated this
year.
I
published two new volumes in The Farloft Chronicle, #5 Three & a Half Dragons and #6 Dragon Memories, Dreams & Reflections .
I wrote
another novella in the Twin Cities Series, Shifting Agony & Ecstasy. It is the further
adventures of our shape-shifting friend, Cody. I am so pleased Drew brought me
into the world of The Realms. These novellas have been receiving nothing but 5 Star
reviews. Everyone seems to love them.
I also
collaborated with a friend from England, David Stevens, and wrote a novella with him in the
Scifi genre called In2Minds.
It is going to be a trilogy and an exciting one at that - an astronaut risking
his life to save his home world only to find things are not as he was led to believe. By
the way, I might just throw in here that David has set his own goal, which is
to give away a million books. Check out his site, there are some real steals there.
And
last, but not least, is my blog and the sites connected to it. I post there every Saturday a
chapter of the current serialized story I am working on. The blog is my melting
pot of ideas. These often develop into books, so you can see the growth of
ideas if you follow me there. You can sign up for a newsletter, which I assure
you I do not overuse, or you can sign up for NetWorkBlogs so you will be informed
when I have posted a new article or episode to the blog.
I also helped found a new site called The Society of Enlightened Dragonologists and their blog Enlightened Dragonologist. It was a dream of Cheryl Matthynssens to have a site that portrayed dragons as more then mere killing machines. I am gratified she included me on her quest to create this site.
A couple
of things were added to the mix this year in addition to putting all the books
in paperback. Folks on Twitter asked to see our garden, Our Quiet Corner, and so a YouTube channel
was established. I did tours throughout the summer and some DIY projects of
interest.
I
created a podcast station basically for my Effortless English followers, who
seem to like the sound of my voice, go figure. It is Theresa's Talks.
Farloft has had so much art produced for him by BlueKite-Fall of Deviant Art that you can find a full page of him on Google by just searching his name Farloft in the Images section of Google. Check it out, many of his friends are there too.
The last
event of 2014, or perhaps it is the first event of 2015, was a huge Dragon
Selfie. Farloft wanted one with all his friends. It should be completed this
week and I will post it on Farloft's site when it is finished for all to see. Kitsooki on Deviant Art did a fabulous job capturing the baker’s dozen of dragons who wished to be in
the picture.
And
though I know it is not a goal, I cannot write a yearly wrap-up without
including a thank you to the wonderfully talented folks who created FanArt for
Farloft, Laura Walters, Merystic and MA Gilchrist. You can see their work on Farloft's Rhetoric. Also, check out Twin-Id, the dragon MA Gilchrist drew and asked me to pen the
story of him.
My Goals
for 2015:
- The last of the Star Traveler Series will get their incredible new covers and be posted on all platforms. Volume #7 will be edited, proofed and released.
- I will write at least one new book in the Shifting group for the Twin Cities series – perhaps two.
- There will be the continuing story in the second book of In2Minds and perhaps the finish of the trilogy this year.
- I will put out a book in the Farloft Chronicles called “Farloft, the Early Years.” This will be a series of three or four novella length books wrapped up in one volume about Farloft’s earlier years traveling as a youngling through the continents of his world – adventures with gryphon, other species of dragons and humans both good and bad.
- I will continue to write on my site TheresaSnyderAuthor.com
- I will continue to seek out opportunities to do interviews and guest blog posts. And I will add to that library readings and book fairs. I have two library readings already scheduled for January and a book fair in April. I have an interview with Ron Shaw on March 2nd. He is a CBS affiliate in Georgia who interviews authors, and I am really looking forward to that conversation. Please drop in and have a listen. If you hear of any opportunities please pass them on to me. I can’t travel far because of my commitments at home, but I have become a whiz on the internet, Skype and the phone.
- I will continue with my YouTube channel. There will be more garden tours and DIY projects.
- There will be more personal revelations and readings on Theresa's Talks for those of you who can’t get enough of me. heeheehee
- And, I think an annual Selfie is in order.
So it
will be a full year with lots to chatting about on Twitter, Facebook and
Google+. If you don’t follow me socially, please consider doing so. I love to
chat and so does Farloft, my dragon friend, who hops on my twitter account the
last Friday of each month. He loves running contests and giving away things.
2015 is
going to be a very good year, drop by and visit, pick up something to read and
maybe get in a selfie with Farloft. Anything is possible.
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