2024 Year End Report: Success Markers!

If you are new here, I am a big advocate for defining success for yourself. And part of that is breaking it down into more digestible chunks so you can give yourself a sense of accomplishment. I do this, and announce my little victories on here. So here we go, the goals underlined have been completed!

My Short Term Goal List

And then there were two! My last two short term goals are to sell 5k books, and to have a book launch that sells at least 1k during my launch window. I will certainly hit the first goal in 2025, but the second, that isn't set in stone. But I am really going to try! If I can do that, I will have ticked every goal off my short term list between 2022 and 2025! And that will make me very, very happy!

Get 100 reviews on a book - Done! 2022

Do six panels at Dragon Con - Done! 2023

Sell 1,000 Books - Done! 2023

100,000 KENP - Done! 2023

Have a 1k book launch - Not Yet (900ish is the current record)

Have a 1k month in a non-launch month - Done! 2023

Sell 5,000 Books - Not Yet!

Instagram over 500 likes - Done! 2023

Facebook over 1000 follows - Done! 2024

250 subscribers to my newsletter - Done! 2024

Patreon to 4 - Done! 2023

My Longer Term Goal List

These are items that I hope to complete within 5-6 years of me switching to the Longer Term List once I complete the short term one. Honestly didn't expect to have any of these ticked off yet, but I have done three and a fourth will be happening in August! How rad is that?! Once I swap over to this list, I will make an Even Longer Term Goal List I suppose.

Sell 10,000 books - Not Yet!

Sell 50,000 books - Not Yet!

Sell 100,000 books - Not Yet!

Trad Publish - Not Yet! Coming in 2025

Make 10k in a year - Done! 2023

Make 50k in a year - Not Yet!

Insta, Facebook over 5k follows each - Not Yet!

1,000 Reviews on a book - Not Yet!

Over 100 reviews each on at least 10 books - Not Yet!

Get an agent - Not Yet!

Write a script and shop it around - Yes! 2024!

1,000 subscribers to my newsletter - Not Yet!

5,000 subscribers to my newsletter - Not Yet!

Patreon to 20 - Not Yet!

Be asked to blurb a book - Done! 2024

Soft Goal List

These are items that I have no control over, as they are entirely fan led. But damn if two haven't already happened!?

Have a fan do a Rule 34 of my work. - Not Yet!

Have a fan write some Jubal County Fan Fiction. - Not Yet!

Have a fan get a Tattoo of my work. Not Yet!

Have a fan cosplay as Howard Marsh at a convention. - Done! 2023

Have a fan make some fan art. - Done! 2023

The Realistic Big Goal

World Travel - A realistic goal for total success for me is that at least once a year I can afford to pay to take my family anywhere in the world for a couple of weeks, just using profits.

The Big Goal

Full Time Author - This is of course the absolute goal of goals, truest of true success. But it's a hard point to get to.