This year is my big push.
One can always say that every year is their big push, and New Year
resolutions are as cheap as paper and dissolve as easily, too. But this year is a true make or break year
for me.
For one thing, it marks my 20 year anniversary in
southern California. I’ll have been here
longer than I’ve ever been anywhere before.
And it’s getting a bit ridiculous having struggled for so long and still
not having a career. The film career
didn’t really go anywhere, (you can read more about that in my blog “Tales of a
Failed Filmmaker”,) so now it’s on to the writing career. I don’t want that to linger in the same way,
so I placed a limit on it. Succeed at
writing, (or one of my other two possible careers: video producing or gaming,)
or choose another career on which to live.
Don’t get me wrong.
My writing will always be there, and I’ll always have a passion for
games and videos; but if, at the end of this year, I’m still having to
supplement my income with a “day job,” then I will at last admit that I cannot
succeed financially in any of my passions.
I know that others can, and I know that it’s possible; and I’m hoping
that I will number among them as I want to be able to finish work and be
done. I’d rather not have one career job
in the day, and try to cram all my passions into the evenings and
weekends. I’d rather do them during the
day and have my free time be mine; with my family and friends. But I can’t live like this forever, so I have
to make things work now or surrender.
This year will tell.
This blog will follow that journey as I put my books together and try to
promote them. First up is Two Gun Hart,
(about Al Capone’s long-lost brother who was a Prohibition officer in
Nebraska,) which is currently in pre-order and will become available to the
public March 20th. I will be
touring after that, then going on to Relic Worlds the rest of the year. (Relic Worlds is about an anthropologist
searching for long-last alien relics.)
If you follow along, you can see how it goes. I’ll be talking about other areas of this
push in my other blogs:
Jeff McArthur
Relic Worlds
Tales of a Failed Filmmaker
#promotions #presales #capone #blogs
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