{"id":3375,"date":"2026-01-05T05:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:23:53","slug":"2025-goals-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/2025-goals-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Goals Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My first goal for this year was to finish\u00a0Unleashed for Murder<\/em><\/strong>,<\/a> the fourth book in the\u00a0Market Center Mysteries<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0series. I hit this one. Unleashed for Murder<\/em><\/strong><\/a> released in November.<\/p>\n

I did get a start on rewriting\u00a0Treadwell House<\/em><\/strong>, but got bogged down about a third of the way through with a problem I haven\u2019t yet worked out.\u00a0 Getting that done will be one of my 2026 goals. \u00a0I\u2019ve also made a start on the fifth and final book in the Market Center series, but haven\u2019t gotten very far. I have a basic idea of the plot.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also pulled out an older novel I wrote back in the 1980s. It was a close call with a publisher back in the day, but ultimately had a plot issue that needed substantial rewriting. I only have a hard copy of it, which I\u2019m scanning in, but it will take a fair amount of rewriting and reworking to make it worth trying to publish now.<\/p>\n

I wrote four new short stories this past year and two of the four have found homes. One was published in the recently released anthology, The Greatest Holiday Romance Stories Ever Written<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Another should be in a forthcoming anthology of romantic fantasy stories, title unknown as yet. I haven\u2019t done as well at submitting stories as I should\u2019ve, though.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still working on the goal of blogging regularly. I\u2019ve been trying for two a week and was doing pretty well until we hit December. The holidays are always a hard time to keep up with anything writing-related, but this year I will try to keep up the two a week goal and have more in inventory.<\/p>\n

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My first goal for this year was to finish\u00a0Unleashed for Murder, the fourth book in the\u00a0Market Center Mysteries\u00a0series. I hit this one. Unleashed for Murder released in November. I did get a start on rewriting\u00a0Treadwell House, but got bogged down …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,256,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals","category-market-center-mysteries","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}