Publishing Plans for 2022

I have my tentative writing/publishing plans done for the next two years, through 2024. However, as I well know, some of these are likely to change along the way. For now, I just want to share my plans for the coming year with you. Because I will be doing another five-book series and there will be two MAPS (multiple-author projects), I don't expect these plans to vary much. 

From February through August, I will be publishing the Idioms and Cliches series: A Bird in the Hand, Going the Extra Mile, A Few Bumps in the Road, Got Your Goat, and Taking Stock. A Bird in the Hand, the first book in the series, is set in Colonial Pennsylvania and is already available on preorder (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09JWMLYSP). Going the Extra Mile is about the first couple's grandson who gets caught in a blizzard in the Appalachian Mountains. In A Few Bumps in the Road, Judith and Robbie, children from the couple in Going the Extra Mile, move to Kansas for Judith to become a mail-order bride. Robbie becomes the main character in Got Your Goat when he goes home with his friend from the Civil War and meets Emily Rose Howard in the Appalachians. His granddaughter marries a lawyer and moves to Washington, DC, until the Great Depression hits, and they're forced to return to the Appalachian Mountains in Taking Stock.

My second MAP novel is scheduled to release on October 25, 2022. Forget-Me-Not-Cookies by Fern is another book in the Old-Timey Holiday Kitchen series. This one is set in Big Lick, North Carolina, in 1898. I enjoyed writing and publishing Walnut Cake by Wylene in 2021 with this group of authors so much that I decided to also join their project for 2022. Then, on December 12, 2022, I will publish my third MAP, Candace, in the Runaway Bride series. Candace Joyner runs away from the unscrupulous man she's supposed to marry and ends up spending the winter in the Rocky Mountains. Watch for more about this book and series, including the cover reveal, at a later time.

I have the rough drafts of all these books already written, and they're moving through the editing process. The covers are also ready, but I'll need to wait for the go-ahead to show those in the MAPS. I am considering the idea of publishing one more book in September before Forget-Me-Not-Cookies by Fern comes out in October. Both the Old-Timey Holiday Kitchen series and the Runaway Bride series have a September slot open right now, and I'm not sure which one I would prefer. I'll make that decision soon. I like working ahead like this. It gives me plenty of time to tweak the stories as needed, and I never have to push to meet a deadline. It makes the writing even more fun for me.

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