Measuring Progress

So, I’ve been feeling a bit of a failure.

But in two years, I’ve managed to release, as a mixture of new and old releases, six novels, five novellas long enough to publish as short books, and five shorter novellas. 

That can’t be what failure looks like.

I’ve added individual print editions to the Sam’s Cafe Romances.

I’ve published a fifth book in the College Rose Romance series: Forgiving James.

I’ve released the first of two long novellas meant to book end the Sam’s Cafe Romances as a prequel and sequel to wrap up that story.

Even if I just look at this calendar year, I am on track for two to three releases. Fortune’s Pawn, which came out early in the year; Fortune’s Price, which is overdue, but should still release in July, and that leaves me with five months to get another release out before the end of the year. 

I’m going to err on being kind to myself. I’m going to remember that this has been a brutal month, and that my dad just had open heart surgery, and that my mind not being on my writing is totally normal. I’m going to get that last novella out this month, and then I’m going to put out something else new. And it will be new, because all the old published stuff has been released. 

​Wish me luck.