Happy New Year!

I’m working on planning out 2024. Right now I have a few sales scheduled as well as a con I will be a guest at and a con (at this point) I will just be attending. I don’t have any plans for a Masquerade costume this year, because I need to focus on one thing – writing.

Right now, I have two novels in a semi-complete state.  I’m drafting Chaos Kin, the next of the Jordan Abbey series, and I have a complete draft of Lucy Harker, Vampire Hunter that I need to review. Plus I have a few other ideas bouncing in the back of my head that I need to get on paper.

And while we’re on the subject of books, here’s a list of what I’ve read this year in no particular order:

• Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty
• Starter Villain by John Scalzi
• Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
• Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Devolution by Max Brooks (reread)
• I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire by P. N. Elrod (reread)
• I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin by P. N. Elrod (reread)
• Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant (reread)
• Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (reread)
• Savage Crowns by Matt Wallace
• Dracula by Bram Stoker (reread)
• A Night In The Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny (reread)

The reason that I read so few books compared to my goal of 45 books is I got sucked into YouTube. I’m planning on splitting the day – YouTube in the morning and audiobooks in the afternoon. I’m going to aim for 40 books this year and try to make a dent in my collection of books to read.

So what are your plans for 2024?