Plans for February

January proved a very busy month indeed. While I cannot say I caught up, due to taking on a major project in addition to those I had initially planned, I nevertheless consider January to be a month of solid accomplishments.

Going into February, I shall clean up the remainder of January’s projects, then at last be able to dig in to the tasks I’ve been putting off for far too long. I will be doing some major reform of an old manuscript, continue work on new translations of published books, and maybe even set down some new material! But most importantly, I will be making my preparations to make an appearance as a seller at next month’s TFF convention in Dallas. I have big plans for this smallest of months, and as I have an extra day to complete them this year, I fully intend to see every one of them through.

Plans for January

Howdy, all! December was a crazy busy month, yet I feel I did what I needed to with it. Still some leftover projects seeping over into the new year, but nothing new there. I’m confident they’ll be done within a week, and I can move on to bigger, better things.

January will be, as usual, a critical month for setting the tone of this new year. If I can get all the editing, revising, translating, and rough drafting done that I hope to (and now that I have a little more free time in the week, I just might), then the stage will be set to make 2024–and even 2025, to an extent–a great success indeed!

Plans for December

November was a busy month. So busy, in fact, that I have spent the first week of December trying to readjust my schedule. I think I have finally succeeded.

As usual, this final month of the year will involve a lot of wrapping up and reorganizing for the new year. Hopefully my current rough draft can be completed (prospects not great), some editing and revising can be finished, and a couple other side projects brought to some kind of conclusion. It will not be the quiet month I prefer December to be, but it will at least pave the way for a fresh new start January 1. At least, that is the goal.

Happy Veterans’ Day!

It is now 105 years since the ceasefire that effectively ended the “War to End All Wars.” Sadly, this was a grave misnomer, but such is the way of man. To those who give their all every day to keep our land and people free, my heartfelt gratitude. God bless you all, and have a wonderful Armistice Day.

Plans for November…and Beyond

Greetings all. I’m rather late on my monthly update, for which I apologize. In fact, I only just now realized I never did an update for October! However, there has been a lot going on.

October was a very long, full month. It started with a little excursion to Tulsa, followed by many weeks of planning and hard work. On the creative side, I managed to do quite a bit of editing/reviewing, a little translation work, and that’s about it. No new projects begun or plotted for the future.

In November and beyond, things will be a bit different. The fact is, recent developments have led me to sort through my priorities in life, and I find that some things that seemed important before have had to take a back seat. What does this mean for my writing and publishing? Nothing new: I’ll continue with my efforts to produce new, higher quality material in future as ever I have. However, my productivity has slowed significantly in the last few months, as some of you may have noticed. I have so many things going at one time that it’s hard to give any one of them the focus needed to see it through to completion. I am stretched to the limit and beyond.

Therefore, I must regretfully announce that the next Knights of Aralia book will not be coming out this year as I had hoped. There is just too much to fix. Hopefully sometime in 2024 it will be ready. When in 2024, I don’t know, but that is the goal for now. Other projects, such as my translations or the much delayed third Sauragia book are so far from coming to fruition right now that I daren’t even guess when they’ll be ready. I could rush them out to meet made up deadlines like I did in previous years, but that is not the recipe for putting out the long-lasting, quality work that I aspire to. They will be ready when they’re ready, and not a moment before.

So, while I will continue to give my monthly updates, and I will probably be attending some live events in the coming year, don’t look for too much new out of me for a while. I need some time to think and seriously reorganize if I am to take this whole writing endeavor to the next level like I want. Thanks, and have a blessed day.

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