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Joy Landa at Spirit’s Paintbrush has done it again with a masterful portrait of Princess Letandra in action!!
And Jaro T. Chambers of Art of Jaro Photography did an amazing job doing the world map of Aberrisc.
The updated versions of The Bleeding Crown are available for sale on Kindle & Amazon!
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I have been hinting that I would be getting a new book cover for Consequences Within Chaos — and here it is!! Be on the lookout for its twin for The Bleeding Crown in a month or so as well!
I am very pleased by this original work by Joy Landa (check out her website www.spiritspaintbrush.com).
Also, I’m very excited to inform you that I’m having a full world map of Tayneva and the other lands from the Wyvernshield series drawn by Jaro T. Chambers (on Instagram @theragingdm) for the final third book!
Exciting things are happening and more to come…
Three years ago, I created this blog and established my site and social media footprint in order to advertise my book and to give my fans a place to reach out to me. This has been a crazy but fantastic ride! So thankful to all of you who’ve come along as passengers on my little quest.
Here’s the growth from year one to now:
SUBSCRIBERS:
VIEWS/VISITORS:
POSTS:
GIVEAWAYS: 18 Individual giveaways for Book, Audio, Amazon or Metal Bookmarkers!
As you know if you’ve been following my goal blogs, I use a bi-montly process that has actually been quite effective. Here are the goals made and fulfilled from July, 2018 through June, 2019:
The entire series has been completed, book covers designed then redesigned, and soon to be released in audible format by the end of the first quarter next year!!
Thanks again to all of you for your continued help, support and following me along this bumpy road! It has been the greatest adventure of my life!!
Check out these amazing eight authors giving away FREE EBOOKS — Doug Sanburn, T.D. Barton, Logan Fox, Susanne Lamdin, Nesa Miller, Andrea Cooper, Adam Mitchell, and Christy Mann!
ONE WINNER will have their choice of a $100 Amazon Gift Card or a Kindle Reader (pictured below!).
GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE! 
Well…this has definitely been a challenging yet rewarding year. Unfortunately, events have substantially impacted my writing production.
At the beginning of April, I gave you my goals for April & May. Now, I won’t go into detail or give any excuses, but me and my family had to face and overcome some serious medical obstacles followed by financial hardships. I was so derailed that I lost most of June as well still working things out.
The dust has settled and overall, we are sitting better than where we even started the year. However, like any sudden change, it takes time to recover and adapt.
I do want to apologize to you, my core fans, and ask for your forgiveness and patience.
My work schedule has done a 360 degree shift on me and thus, my writing time has been severely compromised. One of my priorities this month will have to be to determine when and where to write. As I have stated in the past that I write mainly after 10 PM when my family goes to bed. Now I am working from 8 AM to 4:30 PM versus 11:30 AM to 8 PM — not too mention the two hours of driving time… But, I repeat, I am not wanting to give you excuses, only facts which I’ll have to find a work-around.
I promise you: Writing and developing my collection is too important for me to throw away or forget about. Adjustment, flexibility, good attitude and drive will help me find a path through.
Here were my goals and results from April & May:
And by the way…I recently did an in-depth interview with my voice actress, Laura Richcreek on the Wyvernshield Series. That is in the editing stage but soon to be released. STAY TUNED FOR THAT! It was fun to do and we get into a lot of the minute details and reasons behind the plot twists in the two books. >>SPOILERS ALERT<<
My Goals for July & August:
The last goal blog, I proposed goals and put some dates of completion with them. This time I’m going to try putting Priority Levels on them — I will work from the top down which will keep me focused on what’s most important for me to complete.
There are many other things I want to do, but time is very limited so I hope these goals can be accomplished. With luck and with the better financial position, I hope to do more appearances, giveaways, and book signings by the end of the year! Thanks for everyone’s support and I appreciate everyone sticking around to see what’s in store for the future.
An unseen terror stalks mankind – preying upon the weak, the lost and the outcasts that society will not miss. Lottery winners Nate and Zelda Malone thought their luck and fortune had forever changed. It has… Fate has chosen them for an extremely dangerous new path and an encounter that will forever haunt them.
This terrifying collaboration by T.D. Barton and myself is a unique ‘werewolf’ origin story that takes place in the 90s. Fans of Stranger Things and Stephen King’s IT will love this nostalgic but intense horror tale!!
If you have the courage, step now into a dizzying, heart-pounding tale of terror that you will never forget – if you survive the telling.
Time for a goal check-in!
In January, I opted to break away from the Bi-Monthly goals and introduced a new goal system. As you may recall, it was a goal system defined by Sarrah Cannon in her YouTube video How To Make 2019 Your Best Year Yet.
The essence of her system revolves around Main Goals, Projects, and Tasks. You set two or three “main” general priority goals to focus on. Then you break down those goals by deciding on Projects that will accomplish those general Main Goals. With each Project Goal, you detail and define what Tasks you are taking to get the Project finished.
Here are the goals I worked up for the first quarter:
My MAIN GOALS are as follows:
PROJECT GOALS are as follows:
Goal to Increase Site Visits —
Goal to One of Three Books for 2019 —
TASK GOALS to Increase Site Visits as follows:
TASK GOALS to Complete Elude Part Three as follows:
While I did accomplish my goals, I felt like the extra month gave me too much leeway — gave me an out and I was not as “driven or pushed” as I have been with the Bi-Monthly goal system.
A couple positives did come out of the trial run: I was able to get a weekly blog done for the three months which was a nice plus and also I increased my site traffic by almost 31% versus the 25% I was shooting for.
So… I may not have felt like I was productive, I did accomplish some objectives. That being said, I’m going to try to do a combination of the two systems and see if that works for me.
First I am going to set myself five Main Goals that are a bit more specific than the general “Main Goals” as with Cannon’s approach. Also, I am going to give myself a bit of an established timeline completion date (not a deadline but more of an expectation).
My April & May months may only 5 goals for the Bi-Monthly system which usually had 10, but these are some tough objectives and come with imminent goal dates. And along the way, I want to get a video done for my fantasy series as I watched several videos on book trailer production and think I’m up to it…but where can I get in that extra time?
WISH ME LUCK!
