{"id":3378,"date":"2026-01-13T02:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2026-01-13T02:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:44:30","slug":"2026-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/2026-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have some fairly ambitious goals for 2026. I\u2019ll try to meet them but promise not to beat myself up if I don\u2019t!\u00a0 First up is that older novel that I\u2019ve had on the shelf for years. It has what I think is a great premise, but at the time I wrote it, I didn\u2019t have a great grasp on plotting. (It was the fourth complete novel I\u2019d written at the time.)\u00a0 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\u2019m getting it out. I have to scan in the typed pages, because I don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/em><\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019d like to have a couple more in the pipeline.<\/p>\n

And, finally, I\u2019m going to try to continue my regular blogging, aiming for two posts a week. I don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have some fairly ambitious goals for 2026. I\u2019ll try to meet them but promise not to beat myself up if I don\u2019t!\u00a0 First up is that older novel that I\u2019ve had on the shelf for years. It has what …<\/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":[3,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","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=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}