So a person needs stretch goals, right? I’ve just spent a few hours setting up a writing and editing schedule for the next eighteen months, creating an accountability book for recording word counts and milestones, and writing the titles on my ‘take everywhere’ notebooks for the next three books:

• Unkept Promises, Book 4 in the Golden Redepennings
• The Beast Next Door, a novella based on the newsletter subscriber short story The Bluestocking the Beast
• Charlotte’s Wish, a contemporary novella for the Authors of Main Street Christmas Wishes box set.

Further across the spreadsheet, I’ve calculated the word count per day to reach the publication date. I can write 1500 words a day, but can I do it every day? We’ll see.

House of Thorns is with the publisher, and Paradise Regained goes to 2nd beta on 2 July.

And I’ve made a start on Unkept Promises, so that’s okay. Day 1. Tick.