A 2013 Recap and a 2014 Plan

So..2013 was a pretty eventful year for me life-wise.

Quit my corporate job, moved halfway around the world, experienced some crazy culture shock I might never recover from.

Writing-wise, a lot of things happened too.

Published 4 books, 3 short stories and made a decent whack of change on my first few months of self-publishing.

So...what's happening in 2014?

A lot. Most of it will be writing, as I am devoting the next four, five years to build up a decently sized backlist so I can take it relatively slow and easy after that. I will suffer now in order to have it easy later. It's got to be better than taking it easy now and then having it rough later, right?

Here's the foreseeable schedule for the next few months:

January - For a Duke's Love (novella), Razing Hell (novel), Snow Prince (novel)
February - Wolves and Brimstone (novel), Lady Dangerous (novel)
March - Shinjuku Affair (novel)

After that...I have no idea. Yeah...looks like 2014's going to be twice as busy than the year before.

I have a confession to make. In an effort to up my productivity, I have to admit that I've entertained ideas of writing a book a week. That's 40 work hours. Assuming, I write a minimum of 1k an hour, that's a novella a week. Once I came down from my cold-induced delirium, I realized there's no way I'm going to write a book a week. >.> Maybe a book in two weeks? I've been reading a hell of a lot of craft books recently and one that has really interested me was Rachel Aaron's (she of the Spirit Thief fame) "From 2k to 10k." I've pretty much been following her book like a Bible and hope to replicate her daily word counts.

We'll see how it goes in the following weeks...