Hi friends,
Wow! 2021 is here!
Like many of you, I’m excited to see what positives will come our way this year.
Since this is the time of year many people make goals and new resolutions, I thought it would be fun to do one Apocalypse style – if society ever were to actually break down.
Apocalypse New Year’s Resolutions
- Bite your tongue and don’t say “I told you so,” when your friends complain that the stores are out of basic supplies again. (Grab some extra toilet paper, hand sanitizer and yeast, yourself, next time they’re back in stock.)
- Pull the trigger on purchasing that farmstead in Idaho, far from large cities, on fifty acres, with a stream running through it, a forest full of deer nearby and a small orchard of mature fruit trees.
- Finally build a faraday cage in the basement and stock it with a extra electronic items, a laptop, walkie talkies, flashlights, radios, cell phones loaded with detailed survival info pdfs, music and entertainment to stay sane, etc.
- Pull out the 72-hr backpacks you made ten years ago and switch out the diapers and baby clothes for things more appropriate for your teenagers (this one might apply to me – lol)
- Read more post-apoc fiction so you can enjoy someone else doing all the stuff you haven’t quite gotten around to doing! 😀
What about you? Any new goals this year to be a little more prepared, now that we’ve learned to weather a global pandemic?
I wish you all a very happy New Year!
All the best,
— Misty 🙂
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Misty’s Writing Update:
Business stuff time!
We’re about ready to start on the fourth book in our Storm series, but are trying to finish up all of the small author chores that seem to accumulate and interfere with the fun of diving into a new book.
A sample of our to-do list:
- Write up briefs for cover artists who are designing the covers for our upcoming books
- Pick titles for all the books.
- Write catchy blurbs for each book that will go on the back covers and the Amazon sales page.
- Reply to early readers who have been generously going over our new books.
- Go through and fix the edits that come back from the editor.
- Make a new website for the two of us
- Write up a welcome email for new readers who will sign-up for the free prequel to our new series (don’t worry – you guys will hear about it first when it’s ready!)
- Set up the system to make a combined email program for the two of us.
- Figure out business and bookkeeping technicalities of working with a co-author.
- Write the front and back matter of the books, including links for the freebies we’ll be offering . . . oh – go and set up those links . . . wait – we need the covers for that and a file to upload . . . ask the cover designer to add the words: “Bonus Chapters” to some of the covers he did . . . etc. LOL
- It never stops! 😀
So, we’ll do a bunch of them and then probably procrastinate the rest so we can both get back to what we love the most . . . creating new worlds and exciting stories to share with you!
Happy New Year and enjoy reading this week!
— Misty 🙂
p.s. Thanks for clicking on the promoted books up above. It really helps!
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