End Of Year Progress Report, 2024

I started out 2024 by telling myself I was going to finish a bunch of half-finished stories I had in my catalog and I amazingly did, especially through the first half of the year.

I also promised myself I would finish this one longer story I had been working on. I sloughed-off on it and it took most of the year but I got it done!

I didn’t really work on a lot of longer stories in 2024, so I’m planning to do more on those in 2025. I have a couple started as well as one idea I want to see finished; another story that’s a sequel to one that got published that is partly started in a notebook somewhere and a longer story set in Wichita which will be a novella if I do it right, or maybe even a short novel.

I have to finish the corrections/suggestions a friend of mine sent me on a mystery I showed him—I got distracted. (Boy! Did I get distracted!) The ms for that one is in one of the boxes I moved to the spare room when I brought the kitties home.

Also, I am planning two books; a long-overdue collection and a collaboration with someone that I can’t talk about now.

So, things look good for the new year. I hope so, anyway!

That’s about it for now, but of course more on the way!

I’ll keep you posted!

——-jeff baker, December 29^th, 2024