I've started planning out my rereleases of my six novels, and then thinking about how "fast" I can write more books, especially after NOT writing daily for so long. And balancing that with getting this house finally "done" and us moved in.
I battle with unpacking constantly, because I didn't want to move here, so packing was a nightmare, and now unpacking is an almost equal nightmare because I don't want to be here. But maybe with our art on the walls it will "feel" like home for the next few years we are here, although it's a struggle every time I unpack a box because all I think about is how I will be packing all of it up again to move to yet another house in another town... on and on. But... I will never have a shot at that other house that is already where I want to live (unless we build something) unless I start earning some kind of income and get things moving on the financial front. Five of my novels will be edited and rereleased, but I might wait on one and rerelease it closer to publishing the next books in that series, so I will focus on my adult fiction first. June looks to be the month I'll release my first new novel, and I've planned to release a new novel every other month after that. BUT... I want to be publishing something on those off months, and that's where the short stories are coming into play. I was talking with my pi.ai app last night because it's an amazing little robot that's always there to bounce ideas off of, even though it just reiterates what I'm already saying, BUT pi does help. I tosses in plenty of encouraging words, and does manage to slip in ideas that help me think around the problem. So, yeah for AI on that score. But I had a fabulous idea for my Birdsong Bay series, and I also started thinking about topics for my short stories... and pi mentioned a few things that I then went to Google and I discovered more cool things to use in my series. Like a writing partner that's just like, "That's a great idea! You're awesome!" because honestly, sometimes that is all I really need to hear. I want to have my two standalone romances edited before I leave for the NINC Conference, and that's right around the corner, so I better get started.
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Last weekend, I sat here in my front living room that is one place that feels like home, and planned the next three years. 2026! What! I have six books out there in the world, and so I'm starting with running through them and making any changes that need to be made, and some are getting new covers, and some are getting new titles and new covers, and I'll be republishing them all under the new Forsythia Cottage name. The plan is to start in November and December by re-releasing Six Dates with Jenna and Finding Mallory, my two stand-alone romances. In January, I'm planning on re-releasing The Misfortune of the Emerald Thief, which is the first in my middle-grade adventure series: The Keepers of the Emerald Cave, ALTHOUGH.... I may hold off on that until after all of these other books are published, because having Emerald Thief out there in the world and no sign of the next books seems like a downer to readers, and I want to not let readers down anymore! So, Emerald Thief might get an editing pass, but stay as it is until I get at least two more books written for Denim, Ravenna, and the rest of the Keepers of the Emerald Cave. Now, Elliot Lake is a different story. I have his first three books done, and they will be getting an editing pass, new covers, new titles, and they will be re-released starting in February 2024. I have the fourth book's draft half-written, and so I will be finishing that for a May 2024 release. It'll be fun to have Elliot's story done and in the world in shiny new packaging. He wouldn't care, of course. LOL Then, in June 2024, the plan is to release the first book in my new series: Birdsong Bay! The first book is at about the half-way mark, and then the rest of the series is planned out. Some of the books are more fleshed out than others, but in typical fashion of a small-town drama series with plenty of romance, family, friendship, love, loss, and a little bit of magic, the stories and characters are all woven together, so it's a little difficult to just dive into writing the first book without knowing what's happening in the twelfth book of the series, etc. My Birdsong Bay Series was supposed to be set in Astoria, Oregon... using a different town name, of course, at that time it was going to be renamed Cordelia. Then, when we moved to SW Oregon, I was going to switch the setting to the Umpqua Valley (I added more valleys and vineyards) and that's when I named the town Birdsong Bay. Now, I'm in North Carolina in an area I'm not exactly motivated to write about, and at first that was bumming me out, BUT I realized that I'm a writer and can literally put the story wherever I want. So now I'm leaning heavily toward the San Juan Islands in Washington State. At the very least, this may be a very good reason to visit my beloved Washington and have a nice tax write-off at the same time. I'm half-kidding about the write-off. LOL Maybe by writing so heavily about Washington, it will all manifest in me returning to where I will finally have a garden again and a view of the Olympic Mountains. Somewhere I can make Forsythia Cottage a living reality. (If we don't lose the entire Northwest because of the big earthquake they're predicting. Lordy!! Does anyone think that will really happen?) CONFERENCE TIME I'll be attending the NINC 2023 Conference: ELEVATE this year at the TradeWinds in St. Pete Beach, Florida, and we leave in less than two weeks! I cannot wait to be surrounded by authors who are learning, sharing what they know, and kicking ass in general in their writing careers! I'm sitting here worrying about what notebook to bring, what pens to bring, how many business cards to bring... Silly!!! My husband and daughters are coming with... six days on the beach on the Florida Gulf Coast sounds like a nice break from the nightmare of moving here. Call it a reward. And most of it is a tax write-off. Yesssss So I've gone over the conference schedule and am most excited about meeting Sarra Cannon in person, and then also meeting all of my Nink Newsletter crew in person! I've been working for NINC as their newsletter proofreader for literally YEARS, but have never met anyone, so this is going to be a game changer. Replacing online images with the actual people is always great, so we're crossing our fingers COVID and hurricanes leave us alone long enough so we can get our conference on. Until next time.... |
Hello, 2023!Cynthia Moyer here... I have written and published six novels, but it feels like that was a lifetime ago. But all of that changes now. Buckle up.
Where have I been anyway?In 2019, we bought a farm. Then COVID happened. Then farm chores kicked in and it seemed like I never got back to the computer. All of my editing work went toward the farm, and I loved everything about my Rosemary Hill. Archives
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