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Happy New Years everyone! How did the first few pages of your 365-page book look? I have to admit that second only to Halloween, New Years is my favorite holiday. I love the blank page aspect of this holiday. It doesn’t hurt that I’m a planner.

Speaking of planners. How are you keeping track of your writing and personal goals this year? I am a huge fan of Passion Planner. But, last year I bought the Author’s Journal and hands down this is the best thing I have ever owned. Go now and get your copy, today. Audrey Ann Hughey the author of this amazing journal/planner “is the founder of the Author Transformation Alliance”. And I just found out that she is in the same Anthology that a good friend of mine is published in, “A Hauntingly Romantic Winter” A Fairytale Collection by The Otherworld Anthology. What a happy surprise to my day.

I have plans to write two manuscripts this year. The first being book 3 or the Fire series, If the Seas Catch Fire and the second being a Beta Read web course. Into the Fire book, 1 of the Fire series will be published in May of this year, I will be keeping you up to date on the release. I have plans to take part in both Camp NaNoWriMo’s in April and July of this year and the biggy NaNoWriMo in November. Do any of you going to take part in NaNoWriMo events?

The Fire Inside book 2 of the Fire series has reached it’s halfway point in the beta read. I will be revising this book in April. I have been getting great feedback on the read. I am so proud of myself that I have successfully avoided reading any of their answers to the chapter questions. This is a huge accomplishment and it was a hard lesson I learned last year during the first beta read. If you would like to know more about what I have learned and how I do my beta reads check out these previous blogs:

5 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started my Beta Reader Campaign

Writing the Story was the Easy Part, it’s all this Other Stuff that is Hard.

If all this inspired you and you want this year to be the year that you write that book you have been dreaming about? Take this chance to sign up for As The Crow Flies.

This is a 1-on-1 author mentorship email program I am offering for the full month of Feburary. Sign up fast seats are filling fast. For as little as $10 you get a private mentor to help you achieve your author dreams.

I also have a giveaway going on Instagram, for a free copy of my How to Master the Bookend Revision Technique, a $25 value. Head over to Instagram, look me up at @crowshirley, find this graphic

in my posts and follow the directions to be entered into the giveaway. Open internationally. See you over there.

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