Goals list of 2016:
- At One’s Beast available in King County Libraries
- I didn’t submit this book to the library becuase I decided to revise and republish version 2!
- Donuts in an Empty Field (For the Love of Donuts Book 1) published
- Yes!!! Check it out HERE
- Start my retirement fund
- Yes! I started an IRA and put money in it!
- Create a food/board game
- No, totally forgot about this one….
- Watch a roller derby
- Yess!! I even got to dress up, see it here
- Finish Flora’s Last Chance for Magic and submit to publishers
- Yes and no. I finished writing, editing, proofing, and getting a cover, but I’ve only submitted the book to one agent
- Re-revise My Dad the Prepper and send it out to new publishers
- Yes! I revised this book and sent it out to new publishers and I’ve already received several rejections (I’m up to 11 so far on this project)
- Make a box set case for upcoming series For the Love of Donuts using this website
- Forgot about this one too because I only have one book so far in the series!
- Publish the anthology “Stories from Seattle” with all proceeds to go to my favorite goat rescue PSGR
- Tabled this because nobody knew about submissions, but I did submit to a Hot MC biker chick anthology 😉
- Finish my brother’s recipe book so he can publish it
- Tabled this one as he lost interest in completing this project
- Publish Cafe Connections (Aster & Tilde book 1) on 10/31/16
- HA ha ha. I have so far to go on editing for this! I want Aster & Tilde books 1 and 2 (editing and rewrites) to be my project for Nano 2017
- Get professional author photos
- Nope. I have enough amateur photos for now…
- Learn a special dance or solo
- Sigh. Tabled. But I did choose the perfect song to learn once I get around to it!
- Bask in a sea of donuts
- No. Tabled this one as well because I haven’t sourced these donuts yet.
2017 Goals!!! Writing and Beyond:
Writing:
- Publish Seize the Donut (for the Love of Donuts Book 2) on National Donut Day – June 2nd, 2017
- Edit my short stories – Celebrity Dreamscapes, Smart Fraud, The Man Who Never Slept
- Send out my short stories for publication!
- Version 2 of At One’s Beast (edit, revise, re-release)
- Find an agent for Flora’s Last Chance for Magic
- Find a publisher or artist for my children’s picture book
- Write and art for children’s picture book about pole dance
- Write a children’s picture book about dad catch phrases or dad puns
- Revise Aster & Tilde
- Write Aster & Tilde book 2 and plan out the series
- Review 1 Indie book a week
- Go to Emerald City Writer’s Conference again
- Start editing Dollars to Donuts (for the Love of Donuts book 3)
- Publish Nichole’s Book of Awesome Things (for the Love of Donuts accompaniment 2) for release with Seize the Donut
- Create a coloring book of donuts (for the Love of Donuts accompaniment 3) for release in the winter
- Create an audio book of my poetry book
- YouTube video 1x/month
- Get 500 Instagram followers
- Reach 250 Facebook likes on author page
- Reach 250 Facebook friends
- Reach 250 Twitter followers
- Get to 2000 newsletter subscribers
Physical:
- Mile in 10 minutes
- 50 push-ups in one go
- Inversions other side solid
- Shoulder mount
- Level up inversions at Divine
- Dance performance
- 200 pole classes lifetime
- 10 pull ups