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Long time readers will know that I don’t like RESOLUTIONS. There’s too much focus on one day in the year, and there’s too much looking back on a previous year with regret, with a false determination to DO BETTER next year.
And it’s all too easy for the resolutions to fall flat.
Like: “This year, I’m going to lose x weight”. It’s a focussed target, which might appear to be good, but it’s a digital target. You will either succeed, or you will do the ‘F’ word – FAIL<\/strong>. And failure is a destructive state of mind.
We don’t like destructive things – we only like constructive things. So my resolutions are NOT resolutions – they’re aims, or goals. If I don’t reach those goals, I’m not going to beat myself up about it, because as you will have seen if you’ve read my ‘looking back<\/a>‘ post, there’s still a lot to celebrate.
So let’s get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

BOOKS – FICTION<\/strong>
Book 2 of my \u2018Body\u2019 series will be published in the Spring of 2021 – Body In The Hut. It is at first draft stage, and in the next 3 months, it will be edited, proofread, beta-read, re-edited, re-proofed, and published.
Book 3 of the \u2018Body\u2019 series will be published in the Summer of 2021 – Body Under The Pier. This will temporarily conclude the series, although if feedback is good, it might continue.
Book 1 of the \u2018Death\u2019 series – Death In Print – will be published in the Autumn of 2021. This new series will feature D.C.I. Danni Monroe, and will be more of a police procedural. A crime author finds people close to him are dying.
Book 2 of the \u2018Death\u2019 series – Death At Christmas – will be published before Christmas 2021. D.C.I. Danni Monroe investigates a serial killer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BOOKS – NON-FICTION<\/strong>
I shall be writing a book on efficient storytelling and publication. It will be based on the publishing schedule of this year, and it will show how a novel can be planned, written, rewritten, edited and published in 3 months. It may or may not be called \u201cThe Efficient Author: How to Write and Publish Four Novels a Year\u201d. Similarly, there\u2019s another non-fiction book on the back burner on the subject of \u201cHow To Rescue Your Manuscript\u201d, showing how I took old, unworkable manuscripts and made them publishable.
Of the two, the Efficient Author book will take precedence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUSINESSES<\/strong>
Each of the businesses will continue to offer writing support services, although the publishing offer for Hard Pressed Books will be promoted. I presume we\u2019ll be running the course which was cancelled from Swanwick last year \u2013 \u201cBeing a Full-Time Author in the Gig Economy\u201d. Booking is open for the summer school, so the organisers are assuming we’ll be able to go ahead in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MARKETING<\/strong>
For 2021, I want to concentrate on newsletters:
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  1. A personal monthly newsletter (me: future, present, past – books coming out, what I\u2019m doing, what I\u2019ve done)<\/li>
  2. A monthly newsletter (business: for HPB \/ Novelmakers \/ Writer.Support – self-publishing and publishing business)
    Both newsletters will need funnels to encourage readers to sign up.
    I will also investigate direct sales through the website and BookFunnel https:\/\/bookfunnel.com<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    VLOGS \/ VODCASTS<\/strong>
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