One Year Ago....
One year ago today I published my first book on Kindle....
It is crazy for me to think that was already a year go! It seems like just a few months ago that I was sitting in my living room, deciding to take the leap and put my writing out there for people to read! I didn't tell anyone, not even my closest friends or family. It was just something I felt like I needed to do on my own, to see if I could do it, and to prove that I had something to say.
Now, 356 days later, I am almost at 100 Goodreads review for that first book Just Pretending. I also have now put out two more book that connect to that first book: Changed? and Stage Lights. Together these three books form Hearts to Follow Series. Next, I wrote a NA short story called Big City Farming. But all of that was a warm up for a project I was working on the whole time.
This past November I participated in NaNoWriMo. In one month I wrote a first draft that soon became Locket Full of Secrets! This book was 3 years in the making, and is something I am so proud of myself for finishing and getting out there. It was scary and hard and really awesome at times, and now I am blessed as reviews come in from readers.
In the last week I have finished two more YA short stories: I Will Survive: tips and hints to help you survive in this zombie infested world and The Kiss Dare. And I am just a few chapters from finishing the first draft of my next project Babysitting Charlie.
Even listing all of that makes me shocked at this last year! I have also met a lot of authors, worked with great editors, was blessed to have a good friend design book covers, and also had the chance to guest blog on a super cool blog!
So what is coming up in this next year? Great question! I have a few projects I am working on, and a few more planned. But more than that, I hope that in this next year I can continue to meet readers, write stories worth reading, and bring joy to those of you who take the time to read the words I decided to self-publish on Kindle.
All in all this has been a great year, and I cannot wait to look back another year from now and see what news I have to share with you then!!
THANKS FOR READING!
-Dana Burkey
It is crazy for me to think that was already a year go! It seems like just a few months ago that I was sitting in my living room, deciding to take the leap and put my writing out there for people to read! I didn't tell anyone, not even my closest friends or family. It was just something I felt like I needed to do on my own, to see if I could do it, and to prove that I had something to say.
Now, 356 days later, I am almost at 100 Goodreads review for that first book Just Pretending. I also have now put out two more book that connect to that first book: Changed? and Stage Lights. Together these three books form Hearts to Follow Series. Next, I wrote a NA short story called Big City Farming. But all of that was a warm up for a project I was working on the whole time.
This past November I participated in NaNoWriMo. In one month I wrote a first draft that soon became Locket Full of Secrets! This book was 3 years in the making, and is something I am so proud of myself for finishing and getting out there. It was scary and hard and really awesome at times, and now I am blessed as reviews come in from readers.
In the last week I have finished two more YA short stories: I Will Survive: tips and hints to help you survive in this zombie infested world and The Kiss Dare. And I am just a few chapters from finishing the first draft of my next project Babysitting Charlie.
Even listing all of that makes me shocked at this last year! I have also met a lot of authors, worked with great editors, was blessed to have a good friend design book covers, and also had the chance to guest blog on a super cool blog!
So what is coming up in this next year? Great question! I have a few projects I am working on, and a few more planned. But more than that, I hope that in this next year I can continue to meet readers, write stories worth reading, and bring joy to those of you who take the time to read the words I decided to self-publish on Kindle.
All in all this has been a great year, and I cannot wait to look back another year from now and see what news I have to share with you then!!
THANKS FOR READING!
-Dana Burkey
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