May 2017 Goals

written by Betsy Flak on 2017-05-01

As usual, we'll start with an update on April's goals

1. Fail. It turns out I'm tweaking the wording of The Impossible Creation much more than I anticipated. The first readthrough took both longer to do and longer to act on the comments (and I had some technical difficulties as the icing on the annoying cake). That said, I should be ready for the second readthrough by the end of this week, so I'm not terribly off-track. I also scheduled in some buffer, so this delay shouldn't impact the launch date.
2. Almost a complete success. Line-by-line self-editing is done for Part 1 of An Uncertain Death. And I am literally one scene away from being completely done with one of the ultra-secret bonuses for The Impossible Creation launch, which was my goal.
3. Success! I actually ran two compaigns: one was a kindle paperwhite giveaway with some author friends and the other was a round of Facebook ads. Welcome new Troupe members!

Now that we're up to date, let's dive straight into May's goals:

1. Deliver the final draft of The Impossible Creation to The Certain Cell no later than May 17th (four weeks ahead of launch).
2. Finish preparing everything that will support the book launch of The Impossible Creation, including the ultra-secret bonuses.
3. Run at least 1 campaign to find new readers.

And that's it. It feels pretty doable, although I have some wiggle room with goal #2 since The Impossible Creation doesn't launch until June 14th. Which is great, because my parents are visiting in May and brother and sister-in-law are visiting in June before the big launch...so I may need it. Either way, I'm feeling pretty good about meeting these goals (or only failing by a little). :-)