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Month: February 2025

Accountability Time!

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It’s almost Valentine’s Day! And I work for a chocolatier! But to my amazement, I got a lot of stuff done!

My production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels went really well, but I missed an entire week of working on anything, including, unfortunately, Her Brother’s Billionaire Best Friend‘s release promo. I really fumbled the ball there, but I did notice that having my pre-order link for book two at the end of book one has resulted in twenty-seven pre-orders, and the book comes out in May. I haven’t even really been promoting the sequel yet. Although I’m supposed to do that. More on that, later.

Right now, to focus on this particular week, my number one goal has to be “manage my expectations.” I’m working extra hours at the outside job this week due to the holiday, but I somehow keep having the genius idea to do literally everything on the inside job. Proofread! Format! Make this phone call! Do this!

I cannot ask myself to make a phone call this week. I cannot ask myself to deal with taxes. It’s okay to do the normal amount of writing job work. Go big next week.

BUT definitely do the cover reveal for Her Billionaire Boyfriend, Jenny. You have to do that. Past you didn’t think it through very well when they scheduled it.

Probably means I have to write the blurb, too. Son of a…

But the really interesting news is that last week, the combined total of all the words I wrote across three projects was 10,000 exactly.

Word Count For 2025: 21221

Her Brother’s Billionaire Best Friend releases February 4 (I wish I could cross this one off, but I can’t until I’m happy with the paperback.)

  • Heavy, daily promo until release day (I did better with this release than I ever have in the past, promotion wise. I’m pretty happy with what I did.)
  • Send out ARC emails
  • Search manuscript one last time for “actually,” “clearly,” and “really”. Eliminate as many as I can stand.
  • Format for Kindle and Smashwords
    • Table of Contents
    • Front Matter
    • Update Book Links
    • Back Matter
    • Pre-Order link to Her Billionaire Boyfriend
  • Upload manuscript to Smashwords by Jan. 15
  • Upload manuscript to Kindle by Jan. 31
  • Format Paperback
    • Format
    • Cover
    • Order Proof (This has been a continual thing.)
    • Adjustments as needed, if any (Please, no more.)

Her Billionaire Boyfriend releases May 6

  • Combine into one file from original proofs
  • Staggered promo with HBBBF from February 14
  • Heavy promo from March 1
  • Cover
  • Cover reveal February 14
  • Blurb
  • Establish Pre-Order Link
  • Final proof
  • Send out ARC emails
  • Format for Kindle and Smashwords
    • Table of Contents
    • Front Matter
    • Update Book Links
    • Back Matter
    • Pre-Order link to Her Billionaire
  • Upload to Kindle, Smashwords
  • Format for Paperback
    • Format
    • Cover
    • Order Proof
    • Adjustments as needed, if any

Her Billionaire releases September 30

  • Final Proof
  • Cover
  • Blurb
  • Staggered promo with HBB from June 1
  • Heavy promo from July 1
  • Establish pre-order link
  • Format for Kindle, Smashwords
    • Table of Contents
    • Front Matter
    • Update Book Links
    • Back Matter
  • Format for Paperback

Alpha Queen Ascending releases April 15

  • One last read through just in case
  • Cover
  • Blurb
  • Establish pre-order
  • Format for Kindle and Ingram
    • Table of Contents
    • Front Matter
    • Update Book Links
    • Back Matter
  • Format Paperback
    • Format
    • Cover
    • Order Proof
    • Adjustments as needed, if any

The Vampire’s Willing Captive releases July 15

  • Fablemere promo campaign May 2
  • Birthday campaign July 1
  • Heavy promo July 1
  • One last read through just in case
  • Cover
  • Blurb
  • Establish pre-order
  • Format for Kindle and Ingram
    • Table of Contents
    • Front Matter
    • Update Book Links
    • Back Matter
  • Format Paperback
    • Format
    • Cover
    • Order Proof
    • Adjustments as needed, if any

Books I Want To Finish This Year:

  • A Kingdom of Wonder and Terror
  • The Business Centaur’s Virgin Assistant
  • Untitled Sophie book
  • The Breakaway
  • The Turning
  • Filthy, Rich

Miscellaneous:

  • Get Abigail Barnette website up
    • Call web provider
    • Link Shopify
    • Promote Shopify
    • Add ebooks
  • Paperbacks of The Boyfriend and Sophie
    • Download manuscripts
    • Format
    • Cover
    • Upload
    • Order proof
    • Adjustments as needed, if any
    • Add to Shopify
  • Launch Shopify
    • Blog post
    • Promote across socials
    • Add link to Trout Nation website
    • Add link to Abigail Barnette website

RELEASE DAY! Her Brother’s Billionaire Best Friend

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Happies of book birthdays to Her Brother’s Billionaire Best Friend, out in ebook today. The paperback release is on the way, but a formatting error required me to order a new physical proof, just to be sure damaged copies aren’t being sold. I’m confident the issue will be fixed before the end of February.

The cover of Her Brother's Billionaire Best Friend by Abigail Barnette. A pale white redhead in black bra and panties sits on the lap of a white man in a black suit, holding a rocks glass.

He’s perfect for her. She’ll perfectly destroy him.

Charlotte Holmes doesn’t fall in love; she falls into bed. And car. And cruise ship stateroom. Matthew Ashe falls in love way too easily; he’s a sucker for a pretty face. And falling too fast. And getting impulsively engaged. The only thing the two of them have in common is their mutual love of kinky, casual sex….and the fact that Charlotte’s brother is Matt’s best friend.

All Charlotte knows about Matt is that he’s the billionaire heir to a hospitality empire. All Matt knows about Charlotte is that she’s bound to break his heart. When a destination wedding fling turns into months of long-distance flirtation, Matt invites Charlotte to Ascend Red, his private resort where guests live out their wildest fantasies. Even limitless indulgence and abandoned inhibitions can’t satisfy his craving for something deeper with Charlotte. And Charlotte is beginning to think Matthew Ashe could be the one man she doesn’t want to walk away from…

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