How I did with September’s Goals
September
– Write 4 Flash Fiction Friday Stories (one per week)
Completed.
– Update my Blog and Facebook Fan page (Both are titled ConniesRandomThoughts) weekly
Completed. Did the Merry-Go-Round Blog tour too!
– Continue to revise short stories
Completed. Revised the stories for Halloween Tales and wrote a fifth one so there would be 5 stories in the book.
– Begin submitting short stories to publishers
Sent Where the Brown Things Are to WotF (World of the Future: a science fiction magazine that has a quarterly contest to select the best stories for the mag.) I won’t know until January if it is accepted.
A side note: I should find out in the next week or so if I won the contest held by the Southwest Authors. (The story is The Reunion.)
– Begin outline for November NaNo
I didn’t get the last Gulliver station book: Revolution, outlined. I’ll have to do it in October, 1st thing so I have time to let it mellow before I begin writing in November.
-Other things accomplished
– Released Halloween Tales on September 30th.
– Began planning my late November book release, a collection of Christmas stories. One story more story was written and another was planned and outlined.
– Took a mini-marketing class. The planned and outlined Christmas story is a teaser for my Gulliver Station stories. Trying to make the work do double duty here. The marketing class has also decided me that I need a web site, not just a blog. So that is planned for no later than the end of December.
– Signed up for a Holly Lisle challenge related to the mini-marketing class. Again, one of the items in that challenge is to release a book. My Christmas book is that project. The course is about how to do a new product launch, so the book and the web site are part of that launch.
Halloween Tales released September 30th! I’m pretty excited about it. You can buy at: Apple, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Amazon or Smashwords today!
Links:
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/halloween-tales-a-collection-of-stories
Barnes and Noble: Not showing when I looked but search on Connie Cockrell
Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/359689
Apple: Not found when I looked.