New Years Resolution: Publishing

As a self-published author, I really need to put on my publisher hat and get paper editions of every book out this year.  Case in point: both The Dark and Forbidding Land and The Drache Girl have been out for months in ebook form and aren’t yet available in paperback.  I don’t sell very many paperbacks (whereas my ebooks are really starting to take off) but I think they help my exposure.

As for a traditional publisher, I still have a desire to see my work in giant stacks of hardbound editions, but I don’t have much that will be ready this year to submit to a publisher or an agent.  Maybe Women of Power.  On the other hand, the publishers are doing such a good job of driving themselves out of business that I may not get a chance.  Expect to see at least one major publisher fold in 2011.  Expect also to see some big names going the self-publishing route.

New Years Resolution: Writing

My goal for 2011 is to finish five books.  Right now it looks like they will be…

His Robot Wife
Senta and the Steel Dragon Book 4: The Young Sorceress
Senta and the Steel Dragon Book 5: The Two Dragons
Women of Power
and The Jungle Girl

Someone pointed out to me that all of my books have either a woman’s name or description in the title, and note that trend continues in 2011, though I have several books either in the works or in mind that break it.