This is the time of year for planning ahead.

Having a few goals to aim for is always worthwhile. It's a great thing for writers to do as it provides a bit of motivation and helps put things into perspective.

My writing goals for 2014 are:

1. To publish my short story collection, Far Away In Time. This is with beta readers at the moment. Having heard back from 4 of my readers, I am reasonably confident that it can be published soon as they didn't find any major errors. By March I hope to have that available for Kindle at least. It will eventually also be available in paperback. I'll be doing a cover reveal for that book shortly.

2. To publish the second edition of my novel 'A Time to Tell'. I ended my contract with the original publisher of that book mainly because I want all my books published in the same way; it's easier for me to have some sort of control that way. I want to re-launch it with a new cover. The cover has been designed by Kat of Aeternum Designs. It looks great and I'm looking forward to revealing that soon.

I am editing the book before re-release. That is going slowly because I have a day job and about 100 other commitments. I'm hoping it will be ready to go to a proofreader in a month or so.

3. I have been approached with an idea for a collaborative project and hope to be working with an author and another creative on a collection of short stories sometime this year.

4. I'm hoping to find time to work on my new novel, currently titled 'Illusion' - I'm sure that title will change.

That's about it, but this time last year I didn't have plans for my collection "3", so anything can happen!