My restful week was followed by a busy one. Life had me going in many directions, writing had me going in several more both with the Bluestocking Belles and on my own desk. “Here and Now” for Fenwick Forevers completed fixes from its development edit and off to copy edit. My as yet on named story for the Midsummer collection has gotten an extra month to hand in, skipping Beta1, thank goodness and is under way. I also have lovely ideas for a Dragonblade collection, due by February 1!
So plenty to do. The Belles have been planning out to 2028! That gave me the push I needed to look at my own work—and life. In 2027 my major goal is to reedit my four remaining out-of-print novels and add them to my Honor at Heart series as Books 5-8. In addition I plan to start one of the two all-new additional titles I plan for that series. Books 9 and 10 will launch in the first half of 2028. All that may prevent me from diving into as many collections. We’ll see. Honor at Heart has to come first.
As to life, we have a university graduation and a milestone birthday to celebrate in 2027. There’s a cruise on the calendar for June 2027 and another for October 2028. To be truthful, a third one for 2029 is a gleam in my eye but that remains to be seen. How about Africa? Of course my bucket list still has Yellowstone and Yosemite. I haven’t gotten there yet.
For this week, I’m shooting for big progress on the Midsummer story. I also need to create the blurbs and tag line for Here and Now, but first, coffee.