It’s time to look back on the year and assess what I’d planned to accomplish and what actually happened with those plans. I know this is going to be a wild ride, so hang onto your handrails, and let’s get going.<\/p>\n
I’m going to work counter to typical roller coaster design and take you on the downward plunge right out of the gate. I did not publish Polar Bear on the Loose<\/em>. Feedback from my beta readers indicated it still needed far too much work, then I lost my way. So it, as my first novel and novel of my heart, is back in the igloo for now.<\/p>\n Taking you even deeper into the abyss, I did not begin my revision of Geeks<\/em>, because I simply wasn’t ready to work on two dissimilar major projects at a time.<\/p>\n Time to pull out of the dive and rise to the top after that not so thrilling drop. Blackbirds Second Flight<\/em> became a reality, in paperback and Kindle formats. Didn’t get your copy yet? Head on over and pick one up.<\/p>\n I also made progress in the behind the scenes publishing arena by packaging Quin<\/em> and Glaring Upheaval (with bonus story) <\/em>as ebooks on Amazon. The Glaring Upheaval<\/em> story is from Blackbirds Second Flight<\/em>. So if you already have the anthology, you have the story. Quin<\/em> is my story from Blackbirds First Flight<\/em>. If you don’t have either of those, you might be interested in checking them out. If you already have them in one format, I don’t expect you to buy them in another (but thank you if you do!).<\/p>\n I experienced a mixed bag this year. I’m going to embrace the positives that I’ve managed to add to my publishing credits, and I believe the stories, though categories in Dark Fantasy, are not too dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s time to look back on the year and assess what I’d planned to accomplish and what actually happened with those plans. I know this is going to be a wild ride, so hang onto your handrails, and let’s get going. I’m going to work counter to typical roller coaster …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackbirds","category-merry-go-round-blog-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15157,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions\/15157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}