Thanks once again to Heidi-Jo for asking me to take part in this Festive
update on her blog about my progress on my path to publication.
2014 past
This has been a great writing
year for me. When I was last on Heidi-Jo’s blog, I had just received my NWS
report back from the RNA about my debut novel ‘From Here to Nashville.’ The
feedback was constructive and I was well into my final revisions.
2014 present
Since then, I have sourced a
cover for my novel from Design for Writers and although it was a steep learning
curve going through that process, I was very pleased with the final result. It
was a real highlight for me to choose the final cover and I can’t wait to
reveal it next year.
I have also had my novel
professionally edited and I am almost at the end of those edits now.
2014/2015 future
I plan to give my final
version of ‘From Here to Nashville’ to two trusted readers to give it a final
read through for me before I send it to my proofreader at the end of January
next year. All being well, I should be ready to self-publish shortly after
that, unless I win a competition I have entered!
Whilst my first novel is being
read for the final time, I will be going back to novel number two and working
on that again. This will become the novel I submit to the RNA NWS next year.
New Goals
When I looked back at the
goals I set for this year, I was pleased to see that I had met them all! For
the coming year, my main goals are to publish book one and to rewrite book two.
Both of these seem absolutely on course right now and that gives me great
pleasure. I have one or two other goals but these are much bigger and I will
need to break them down a bit before I share them in one of my weekly blog
posts.
For now, it’s enough to know
that next year will be the year I become a published author and in the same
year that I will be celebrating my 50th birthday!
If you would like to contact
me, you can get in touch with me in the following ways:
Hi Julie, Congrats on your writing year and I sympathise with the birthday though no way do I believe it!
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