Writing Update: January 2016

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Have I not posted since November? Over a month? Oh, I am a bad little blogger, me.

The Fandom is strong with my family.

The ending of 2015 was extremely busy (what else?) filled with visiting grandparents, Japanese finals, college applications, and the premier of one highly anticipated film. In summary, my grandparents still love their nutty granddaughter (can’t say why), I passed all my classes (thank God), I have been accepted to Concordia University Texas (go Tornados), and Kylo Ren is my new baby (I regret nothing).

But writing, yes. I do have writing to talk about.

Daindreth’s Assassin has been entered in the Writer’s League of Texas Manuscript contest and is on track to begin querying agents in March. I’ve been working on this series for nearly three years now and I am so excited to be taking the next steps. Amira and Daindreth’s story has gone through such a massive evolution from what it originally started out as and I can’t wait to see how things develop.

I have a t-shirt, a certificate, and a PEN. It does not get much more official than a PEN.

Though, I confess, Amira and Daindreth have been my main focus lately, I have not forgotten Janir and the Argetallams.

The second book in the Argetallam Saga is even now getting a facelift and reedit, heading for the presses this spring. I have completed drafting all seven books in the series, so hopefully I will get my act together and be able to bring you the third and fourth books sometime before the next new year, right?

Right.

I feel like I’m forgetting something…

Oh, yes. The third Fanged Princess novella now has a title: Fanged Kindred. It is still marinating on my computer and I mean to get that one out soon as well. Poor Haddie has been pushed to the back burner, but I keep meaning to bring her forward. I really miss her sass.

I have high hopes for 2016 and wish you all the best in your literary and all other endeavors! Happy belated New Year!

(I shamelessly stole the Google New Year’s GIF, as you can see.)

Happy New Year’s Eve!

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Happy New Year’s Eve! I shan’t be partying tonight, instead I shall be huddled away using the occasion as an excuse to stay up later reading. (I have a 2014 reading goal to meet, after all!)

My New Year’s Resolutions

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Happy New Year, my lovelies! So the world didn’t end on the 21st and we get to have another year of life on Earth.

Anyway, today I’m announcing my New Year’s Resolutions.

First off, I’m wondering what the odds of me completing all of these is. My New Year’s Resolutions for 2012 didn’t turn out so hot—then again, I don’t remember what most of them were… Anyway, here are the top five things on my New Year’s Resolution list.

5. Read seventy-seven books

So, thanks to the support of my Goodreads friends, eBook giveaways, a lot of time at the library, and free access to Amazon, I have surpassed my reading goal of 65 books in 2012. But I really, really like the number seven. So in 2013, I am making my reading goal 77. There are so many awesome books set to come out next year (Throne of Glass #2 and Refugee, EEP!) and I cannot wait to get started!

4. Write four books

So this year I wrote three books—The Chalice of Malvron (Argetallam Saga, #3), The Mender and the Mercenary (Mender Trilogy, #1), and Fanged Princess (Fanged Princess, #1). My goal is to write sequels to all of them and finish another series opener I’m working on. If I could get in the sequel to that book, too, that would be super-cool.

3. Hug more, yell less

I say this in reference to my little brothers and parents. I am, after all, a teenager and sometimes teenagers (or humans in general) fly off the handle and yell. I would like to work on controlling my Irish temper and be a nicer sister/daughter because, let’s face it, I can be difficult to live with (particularly when my mind is in one of my stories).

2. Tell everyone in my family that I love them everyday

Is that sentimental? Yes, it is. But we writers oft become sentimental. It’s an occupational hazard.

1. Grow closer in my walk with God

Consider yourselves warned, I am one of those radical Christians you hear about on TV. No, not really, but I do take my faith very seriously. Hence, my No. 1 priority this year is to grow as a follower of Christ.

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So do you have any New Year’s Resolutions? If you do, what are they? If not, why not? Did you fulfill last year’s resolutions?