Happy 2024!!
I, for one,
am happy to turn the page on the calendar to a whole New Year and hope for
many great opportunities to come my way!
This past
year has seen too much heartache and a crazy rollercoaster ride in both my personal
and career lives:
- · I left a relationship and job that
were not working and moved across Canada with 2 cats and my worldly
possessions - in a new car I hoped I wouldn’t have to buy but love.
- · I published All That Shimmers in May
2024, and was part of 3 Aconite Café Anthologies where I created a new
character named Dash Allman, a beach bum PI who adores the late Jimmy Buffett.
- · I was thrilled when the publisher I’d
worked with for 10 years suggested I train with her and take over publisher
duties since she turned 80 last year. After getting every password she used and
access to EVERYTHING, as well as getting my own business cards proclaiming me
Associate Publisher…she first suggested I get a part-time job. A month later,
after getting a part-time job, she told me to get a full-time job and that she
had never offered me a job.
- · I began plans to build my own
publishing imprint to release my newest books on my own terms and control.
Lucky for me, I have some great self-published authors who were thrilled to
give advice and help me out.
- · Thing One – my oldest – had a friend
create a logo that I LOVE!
- · I already had a name thanks to my
blog: Escape With a Writer.
- · I had a book in a shelf that I’ve
been editing and having Beta readers help out with so I can launch it February
14, 2024. Personally, Valentine’s Day hasn’t meant much for me in a very long
time. I’m bringing back the love!
- · My contract with my current publisher ends at the end of April 2024. Where things go from there, we’ll see.
The short
version of it all, is that I’m taking back my life and creating the career I’ve
dreamed of since I was a kid. Reaching for the stars! Whether that takes me to new heights, or crashes
and burns, remains to be seen.
Either way, I’m
focusing on doing what I love.
I hope you
spend 2024 doing the same - Following your passions!
Lots more to come!!
Diane Bator
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