So, obviously, this is a bit late, but then it’s goal-setting and not new year’s resolutions. I can set those up whenever I want. Right? Anyway, here we are.

My first goal for the year is to finish the fourth book in the Market Center Mysteries series, tentatively titled Unleashed for Murder. It currently stands at 15,000 words as I make my way to a probable length of around 75,000 words. More on this book in a future post.

I hope to finish it in time to get well into writing a second book, though I don’t know what that will be as yet. I always have ideas floating around in my head, so I’ll have to see what’s rising to the surface when I’m ready for it.

I’ve decided to give traditional publishing a try with Treadwell House – Sanctuary, since it’s in a genre (or actually a combination of genres) that is currently hot, with a number of current best-sellers. This will mean lots of queries and likely lots of rejections, but that’s par for the course. I’m giving it this year to see what happens.

As I did last year, I hope to add five more short stories to my inventory. And a few more submissions of those. It also means I’ll collect lots of rejections as well, but at least I’m trying.

A project I have going with my grandson involves writing several short dragon stories for pictures he’s drawing. I’m quite excited about this!

I’ve done better this year with the blog posts and plan to try to keep up regular posting. The blog doesn’t get a huge amount of traffic, but enough to make it worth the effort.

Last on the writing front is that family background and personal memoir work that is about a third done. I doubt I’ll finish it this year, but if I could get over halfway that would feel like good progress.

Finally, the constant quest to clean out and get rid of stuff. I have made progress, but there’s still so much to eliminate!