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In this episode, Mark looks back at his 2021 goals and achievements, outlining the successes, the failures, and the unexpected.
Prior to the main content, Mark shares comments from recent episodes and also shares a word about this episode’s sponsor.
You can learn more about how you can get your work distributed to retailers and library systems around the world at starkreflections.ca/Findaway.
A high level overview of Mark’s 2021 Goals
Stated 2021 Goals
1 – Publish FEAR AND LONGING IN LOS ANGELES
(Completed Feb 2021)
(In addition – Pub’d FRIGHT NIGHTS BIG CITY
2 – Publish WIDE FOR THE WIN
(Completed March 2021) – had to push pub date back from Jan 26 to March 16
3 – Publish LOVER’S MOON (novelette/novella)
(Didn’t do it)
4 – Stark Publishing Solutions – Unnamed book for writers
(Completed Aug 2021)
5 – Stark Publishing Solutions – Unnamed book 2 for writers
(Didn’t do it)
6 – Publish SCREAMING SKULLS X
(Didn’t do it)
7 – Publish GHOSTLY GANANOQUE X
(Didn’t do it)
8 – Considering another anthology
(Didn’t do it)
9 – Expanding Stark Publishing into something bigger
– Author A – One book (Sarah Kades – Kiss Me in the Rain)– Author B – Delayed until 2022– Author C – still a work in progress
10 – Special un-named project (Planes, Trains and Automobiles)
(Didn’t do it)
Mark also shares some of the high level %’s of his 2021 eBook income, including % of sales at Amazon, Kobo, Apple, B&N, Google, and other places.
Links of Interest:
- EP 225 – Writing Personal Experience in Fiction with Ami Sands Brodoff
- EP 226 – Reflective Roundtable December 2021
- EP 227 – Publishing Trends & Reflections for 2022
- Findaway Voices
- The Canadian Mounted
- Patreon for Stark Reflections
- The Relaxed Author
- Publishing Pitfalls for Authors
- An Author’s Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores
- Wide for the Win
- Mark’s Canadian Werewolf Books
The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
I always thought of you as a glass-half-full kind of guy, Mark, but when you gave yourself a half-point, you went with the short blatt of the not-achieved buzzer sound, not asingle ding of a achieved ding-ding-ding sound. 🙂
LOL, good point, Kathy. Although, since I only hit 1 of the 3 bits within that goal, I felt I WAS being generous giving myself half a point. 😉 It was a “glass is 1/3 full” moment. But I really should have “ding’d” when I should have ding-blatted.
“That would be putting Descartes before the horse.” I laughed way too hard at that. Good luck in accomplishing your goals in 2022, Mark!
LOL, glad to hear you laughed at that, Talena! 😉
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