Some mistakes were made for 2024 in terms of trying new editors, expanding some projects while not paying attention to others, and also attempting to do some licensed fiction deals that didn't pan out. However, 2025 is a brand new year and I have a lot of plans to make it up to my fans. Among these will be the audiobooks for MOON CITY VICE, BRIGHT EYES, SPACE ACADEMY VAGRANTS, and TALES OF CAPES AND COWLS.
I also will be returning to my classic series with the fourth and final Cthulhu Armageddon novel, CTHULHU'S CANYON, and the revival of the Supervillainy Saga with THE RISE OF SUPERVILLAINY. I also hope to maybe do a couple of United States of Monsters novels that will harvest ideas that fell through for my licensed fiction including a brand new Peter Stone novel.
Do I regret all of my choices for 2024? No, not in the slightest. I got a lot of valuable information out of my experiments with new genres and I think the LORDS OF DRAGON KEEP trilogy told me a lot about how the LitRPG genre worked. I also noted that moving to Kindle Unlimited wasn't a bad idea for my older series.
Perhaps the best decision of 2024 was combining my urban fantasy books into the United States of Monsters books and my science fiction books into Futurepunk. Basically, I feel like they're now much more readily available and fans can now appreciate how intertwined a lot of my writing was from the very beginning.
Reviewing this year has been hectic and I fell behind several times due to the fact I wrote 2 1/2 novels that wiill never see the light of day for licensed properties that rejected them. I wish I'd devoted more time to it because I absolutely love BEFORE WE GO BLOG, GRIMDARK MAGAZINE, and EPIC INDIE as places that have done their best to promote other authors.
I also never would have gotten through this year without the help of such amazing friends as Eric Malikyte, David Niall Wilson, David Hambling, David Dodd, Hunter Blain, Matthew Davenport, Steven Ott, Susanna Sharp-Schwacke, Frank Martin, Gary Noon, Jenn Caswell, Susan Boss, Noah Chinn, Crysta Claire, Bobby Dee, Sarah Mussett Arnette, Antonio Marchena-Rodlen, Melissa Watt Hayden, Jeff Jones, Gary Noon, Allan Batchelder, and so many others. My dear wife Kat gets elevated above them all. You are all fantastic.
I hope I can pay you all back for your aid.
My New Years resolution is to keep doing what I love and to make the stories I'd want to read.
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