Month: March 2025

Wow, I’ve dropped the accountabiliball lately! Having the flu really knocked me off my game. I have been nothing but scattered ever since. I’m not even sure I’ve been faithfully logging all the words I’ve been writing, because I just forget.

One thing is for sure. While I had the flu, I somehow wrote 5,676 words. And that’s not good. I should have been resting and letting my body fight off infection. Instead, I was agonizing because the week I took off work, the week that my husband would be out of town, I was supposed to write. Not lay in bed sick. How lazy of me!

Seeing that total in the spreadsheet shocked the hell out of me. It really shocked the hell of out me. Now, on at least one of those days, I did really enjoy myself. I was super bored with being sick, and being able to use my brain again was amazing. But the other days? Why was I struggling?

It made me think of how guilty I feel if I prioritize any relaxation at all over writing. I go on vacations with my family and try to sneak little moments of work in the whole time. The other night, I wrote on my phone during the intermissions of a hockey game. It would be one thing if it was motivated from love of the craft, but it’s really just motivated by fear. I need to find a way to reframe things so that I’m concentrating on how much I like writing and blogging, rather than how terrible I am for spending a single moment not working.

In other news, my pre-orders for Her Billionaire Boyfriend are sitting at 49, just under my goal of 100. And I’ve made an accountability friend at my out-of-the-house job. She has a podcast and hasn’t recorded a new episode in forever. I told her that I haven’t recorded a YouTube video in forever. We agreed that we would both record them by Wednesday. So, there will be a new video for the Patreon soon, and I also plan on getting a video up that was a request from the Discord, about a truly disgusting book I read.

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.) (We should, finally, be done after the next proof.)

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 (In progress) (outsourced)
• 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