{"id":13906,"date":"2025-02-10T18:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T23:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=13906"},"modified":"2025-02-10T18:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T23:33:21","slug":"accountability-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=13906","title":{"rendered":"Accountability Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s almost Valentine&#8217;s Day! And I work for a chocolatier! But to my amazement, I got a lot of stuff done!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My production of <em>Dirty Rotten Scoundrels<\/em> went really well, but I missed an entire week of working on anything, including, unfortunately, <em>Her Brother&#8217;s Billionaire Best Friend<\/em>&#8216;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&#8217;t even really been promoting the sequel yet. Although I&#8217;m supposed to do that. More on that, later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, to focus on this particular week, my number one goal has to be &#8220;manage my expectations.&#8221; I&#8217;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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot ask myself to make a phone call this week. I cannot ask myself to deal with taxes. It&#8217;s okay to do the normal amount of writing job work. Go big next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BUT definitely do the cover reveal for <em>Her Billionaire Boyfriend<\/em>, Jenny. You have to do that. Past you didn&#8217;t think it through very well when they scheduled it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probably means I have to write the blurb, too. Son of a&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Word Count For 2025:<\/strong>\u00a021221<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Her Brother\u2019s Billionaire Best Friend releases February 4<\/strong> (I wish I could cross this one off, but I can&#8217;t until I&#8217;m happy with the paperback.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><s>Heavy, daily promo until release day<\/s> (I did better with this release than I ever have in the past, promotion wise. I&#8217;m pretty happy with what I did.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Send out ARC emails<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Search manuscript one last time for \u201cactually,\u201d \u201cclearly,\u201d and \u201creally\u201d. Eliminate as many as I can stand.<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Format for Kindle and Smashwords<\/s>\n<ul>\n<li><s>Table of Contents<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Front Matter<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Update Book Links<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Back Matter<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Pre-Order link to Her Billionaire Boyfriend<\/s><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Upload manuscript to Smashwords by Jan. 15<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Upload manuscript to Kindle by Jan. 31<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Format Paperback\n<ul>\n<li><s>Format<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Cover<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Order Proof (This has been a continual thing.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adjustments as needed, if any (Please, no more.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Her Billionaire Boyfriend releases May 6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><s>Combine into one file from original proofs<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Staggered promo with HBBBF from February 14<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heavy promo from March 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Cover<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cover reveal February 14<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blurb<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>Establish Pre-Order Link<\/s><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Final proof<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Send out ARC emails<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Format for Kindle and Smashwords\n<ul>\n<li>Table of Contents<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Front Matter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update Book Links<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Back Matter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pre-Order link to Her Billionaire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Upload to Kindle, Smashwords<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Format for Paperback\n<ul>\n<li>Format<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cover<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Order Proof<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adjustments as needed, if any<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Her Billionaire releases September 30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Final Proof<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cover<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blurb<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Staggered promo with HBB from June 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heavy promo from July 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Establish pre-order link<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Format for Kindle, Smashwords\n<ul>\n<li>Table of Contents<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Front Matter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update Book Links<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Back Matter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Format for Paperback<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alpha Queen Ascending<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>releases April 15<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>One last read through just in case<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cover<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blurb<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Establish pre-order<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Format for Kindle and Ingram\n<ul>\n<li>Table of Contents<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Front Matter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update Book Links<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Back Matter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Format Paperback\n<ul>\n<li>Format<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cover<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Order Proof<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adjustments as needed, if any<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Vampire\u2019s Willing Captive releases July 15<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Fablemere promo campaign May 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Birthday campaign July 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heavy promo July 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One last read through just in case<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cover<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blurb<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Establish pre-order<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Format for Kindle and Ingram\n<ul>\n<li>Table of Contents<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Front Matter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update Book Links<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Back Matter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Format Paperback\n<ul>\n<li>Format<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cover<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Order Proof<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adjustments as needed, if any<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Books I Want To Finish This Year:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>A Kingdom of Wonder and Terror<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Business Centaur\u2019s Virgin Assistant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Untitled Sophie book<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Breakaway<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Turning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Filthy, Rich<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Miscellaneous:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Get Abigail Barnette website up\n<ul>\n<li>Call web provider<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Link Shopify<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promote Shopify<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add ebooks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paperbacks of The Boyfriend and Sophie\n<ul>\n<li>Download manuscripts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Format<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cover<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Upload<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Order proof<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adjustments as needed, if any<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add to Shopify<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Launch Shopify\n<ul>\n<li>Blog post<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promote across socials<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add link to Trout Nation website<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add link to Abigail Barnette website<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost Valentine&#8217;s Day! And I work for a chocolatier! But to my amazement, I got a lot of stuff done! 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