You’ve probably heard about how awesome your predecessor, 2013, was, but I don’t want you to be nervous. I’ll show you the ropes. We’ll start slow and build up to an even better level of awesome.

Look me in the eye and tell me you’re not excited. We’re going to do great things together, 2014!

First of all, we’ve got two more Monster Haven books to write. I know! And they’re the final two in the series, so they’re going to be so exciting. I can’t even tell you all the crazy, really scary stuff we have to write for Zoey and Maurice and their friends. Happy and tragic and terrifying all rolled together.

What? You’ll be sad to see it end? I’ll be sad, too. But don’t worry. Stick around when your shift is over. 2015 will get a crack at Zoey’s world in a whole new way. I won’t abandon them. Honest.

So, we’ll be writing books 5 and 6 in the Monster Haven series. But also, we’ll be publishing books 4 and 5 during your time here. So, that’s pretty great, too.

But wait! There’s more! My dear 2014, you are the year we crank it up a couple notches. You are the year we bring a brand new series into the world. We’ve got a lot of writing to do if we’re going to get the new stuff out before the end of the year.

What? No, it has nothing to do with Zoey and Maurice. It does have Phyllis, the talking (and singing) houseplant, though. And a gorgon receptionist at a mythologically infused employment agency.

Here’s a quick description of the first book in the Mount Olympus Employment Agency series:

Muse: Unfinished

Wynter Greene, chronic failure at following through with anything in her life–jobs, boyfriends, crafting projects–finds herself taking a job as a muse at the Mount Olympus Employment Agency. If she can’t guide her clients into finishing what they start, she’ll be demoted and reassigned to Hades as poop scooper for Cerberus, the three-headed dog. But how can a life-long loser possibly help anyone else until she can first figure out how to help herself?

I’m going to need you to be a fairly quiet year, 2014. I’ll have to write five books (plus a book of short stories coming out in February) if I’m going to meet all my goals. But don’t worry. I’m not totally insane. Nearly all the short stories are written, and two of the novels are already partially written.

Think we can do it? Of course we can. And that will make you even more amazing than 2013.

But lets try not to go overboard with conventions and conferences. For this year, I think we’ll just focus on the writing, okay? Even the promo-train needs to stay in the station and stop trying to hit all the stops.

But oh, so much writing! Are you ready, 2014? I am!

Let’s do this!