FIVE YEARS FOR SEEKERVILLE-FIVE YEARS FOR ME!

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FiveYears Since Petticoat Ranch hit the shelves
ATimeline
2007—PetticoatRanch released, it was finished before it was contracted
2007also, Golden Days, contracted before Petticoat Ranch but released after, unwritten when it wascontracted
2008–Calico Canyon released, finished before it was contracted
2009—GinghamMountain, Montana Rose, Cowboy Christmas, Buffalo Gal, Clueless Cowboy release.All written before they were contracted except Cowboy Christmas(See this pace? I'd have never been able to keep this up if I hadn't have all but one of these books already written-as of Gingham Mountain I'm work through a nine book contract with Barbour and three book contract with HP and a three book contract with HMP-but I can handle it because these books, five of them, are already written)

2010—TheHusband Tree, Wildflower Bride, The Bossy Bridegroom, Of Mice…and Murder, Prideand Pestilence, The Miceman Cometh, Doctor in Petticoats, Wrangler inPetticoats release…now we’re starting to see new work much more. Of these, onlyThe Husband Tree was written before it was contracted.



(All the while these are releasing I'm ahead. I was writing Doctor in Petticoats before Montana Rose came out, that gave me the freedom to realize Tom Linscott could be used in this series. Once I decided to write the Sophie's Daughters series and intertwine it with the Montana Marriages series, I had time to do it because I had Gingham Mountain coming but it was done. I went back and changed ages and dates in Montana Rose and The Husband Tree so these books could intertwine. Because I was writing Doctor in Petticoats already I realized I needed a hero left over from the Montana Marriages series to truly make the books connect. I could build Tom Linscott's role up from a barely referred to cranky neighbor who'd fight for Cassie Dawson's spring with Mort Sawyer, to a character in his own right who'd be a love interest for Mandy McClellen-six books in the future)


2011—Sharpshooterin Petticoats, Deep Trouble, Out of Control, Ten Plagues, A Home for Christmas:The Sweetest Gift release, of these Ten Plagues and The Sweetest Gift werewritten before I got my first contract, the rest are new work.

(Now things started to get a little scary. I'm writing all new books, except for Ten Plagues and The Sweetest Gift--which both needed heavy revision. four full length books a year is a pace that I can keep up if NOTHING GOES WRONG. God protect me if I get the flu and miss ten days of writing 1000 words a day seven days a week)
2012—InToo Deep, Over the Edge and another Christmas novellaebook called The Christmas Candle. Of these only The Christmas Candle was previouslywritten-and it needed heavy revisions.
(Ithink I’m missing one. But I can’t figure out which one??? 11 full length cowboy books for Barbour. Four HPs. Three HPMs. One suspense. One Christmas novella ebook. Three full length cowboy books for Bethany)





Here’smy point.
Ihad twenty finished books on my computer when I sold my first book. 

Call it determination. 

Call it striving for yourdream. 


Call it Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Whateveryou call it, when my chance came, I WAS READY. I have now…of those twenty written books...sold eleven (two yet to be released as novellas). Those years, thoseten long, long, long years when I was typing away in mole-like anonymity...were not wasted.
AsI celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of Seekerville AND the Fifth Anniversary ofbeing a published author--a published author who, in five years managed to end up with TWENTY-THREE BOOKS ON THE SHELVES (and seven more contracted--that just is amazing to me--shocking...) I ask each and every one of our Seekervillagers………….…
AREYOU READY?WHEN YOUR CHANCE COMES WILL YOU SAY TO THAT EDITOR,
 ‘Yes, I can haveit to you next week.” Or will you say, “Give me three months, or six months, or a year, and I’ll finishthis.” (by which time she just may have forgotten you and moved on to someone else who IS ready)

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Everyonewho leaves a comment gets their name in the drawing for a $55 eGift card toCBD. I picked $55 for the double fives.Seekerville’sanniversary and mine.
In the comments, answer me this, ARE YOU READY????????
Andif the answer is no, then:What can you do to get ready? What can you do tostart building a backlist? What can you finish, submit, then forget while you finish something else.AREYOU READY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!http://www.maryconnealy.com

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