A Brand New Year!!

It's the last day of 2008 and I'm thinking ahead to a brand new year. But first, I thought I should review my writing goals for 2008 and see how much I accomplished. Here are a few of the goals I did make.

• cut scenes from my Civil War time travel romance, Erin's Rebel


• sent the query to The Wild Rose Press


• got a request for a partial, then the full


• signed contract for Erin's Rebel and it will be a July 2009 release!


• entered my other CW romance, formerly titled Katie Rose in contests


• completed line edits for Katie Rose


• after changing the title to Confederate Rose, gave it a final proofread and sent the query and synposis to my editor & got a request for the full


• signed contract for Confederate Rose


• wrote short story for Civil War romance anthology called Angel of My Dreams


• submitted AMD to editor


• signed contract for AMD!


• outlined science fiction romance titled Moons of Cynara


• started first draft of Moons


• started outlining short Civil War Christmas story for historical romance anthology

I've got a good start on that first draft. By today's count, my word total is 36,525. I'm almost at the midway point. And although I started the outline on the short story, I haven't yet finished. But otherwise, I think I accomplished a great deal in 2008. Now, to figure out what I'd like to accomplish in 2009.