Is this the year you publish your book? The year you finish your manuscript? Or the year you master marketing? What accomplishment do you want to be proud of in December?

2024 was a wonderful year for me and for Agatha Annotated. I spoke to many library groups and set up tables at many fairs. I wrote a bunch of essays and blog posts about Agatha Christie for this website and newsletter. I was a guest on a podcast and on another website. I dabbled in book advertising. And, of course, I traveled to Torquay to speak at the International Agatha Christie Festival, which was an incredible experience!

Now I'm setting goals for 2025. 

Learning more about marketing and advertising and then applying the knowledge to my books is high on the list. That landscape is always changing, and I am falling behind. But the most important goal I'm setting is to complete the next volume of Agatha Annotated. I have started on the 1930s novels, but there are an awful lot of them as this was Christie's most prolific period. I suspect it might even have to be two volumes, but we'll see once I start tallying up the glossary entries. 

My goal is to have the next volume completed by the end of the year. What writing (or reading!) goal are you setting for 2025?

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