I have some fairly ambitious goals for 2026. I’ll try to meet them but promise not to beat myself up if I don’t! First up is that older novel that I’ve had on the shelf for years. It has what I think is a great premise, but at the time I wrote it, I didn’t have a great grasp on plotting. (It was the fourth complete novel I’d written at the time.) Even at that, the book attracted an agent and came close to selling to a major NY publisher. I think I can do better now, so I’m getting it out. I have to scan in the typed pages, because I don’t have an electronic copy of it anymore, and it will need lots of updating to account for changes since the time I wrote it, thirty years ago.
I also want to finish rewriting Treadwell House. I got some great feedback on it, indicating it was close, but needed a few key changes to make it really work.
And finally, in the novel category, I hope to at least get a good start on the fifth and final book in the Market Center Mysteries series. Likely title is A Holiday for Murder, and will be set at a Holiday Show, the first time the setting will be a public show rather than a closed trade show. I already have some idea of how the plot should go.
Again this year, I hope to write 5-6 short stories, and I need to do better about trying to submit them. I do have one already accepted for an anthology this coming year, but I’d like to have a couple more in the pipeline.
And, finally, I’m going to try to continue my regular blogging, aiming for two posts a week. I don’t have a huge readership for the blog, but a fairly steady one. And, in truth, many of the posts are just me, sorting out my own thoughts on things, mixed in with more promo-oriented screeds.
