Things to hope for in 2021.

I’m hopeful that the year 2021 will see the end of COVID, masks, and lockdowns. I want to do the simple things that many of us once did without a thought, go out to dinner, see a movie, and hear a live concert.

Every year, in December and early January, I plan out my professional goals. This year my main goal is to finish two books that are way past the deadline because of the vasculitis that hit me hard in late 2018. I wrote about that here.

Facing the Storm

I’ve completed about ninety percent of Facing the Storm. It was scheduled for release in 2019, but for many months the vasculitis robbed me of energy. The book is now scheduled for release in April 2021.

The series centers on two families as they deal with the very real threat of a solar storm that has hurtled four coronal mass ejections at the Earth. When the storm hits, mere hours into The Storm Rises, it burns out most modern electronics and, the world descends into darkness.  

Facing the Storm is the third book of the Solar Storm Saga, follows both The Storm Rises (Book 0), a 32,000-word sidequel, and the full-length novel Through the Storm (Book 1).

Return to Earth

I’ve also made it a goal to finish the novel Return to Earth, this year. This project has been started, stopped, delayed, and postponed too often.

Return to Earth is the third book of the Guardian Knights science fiction series. Among others, the series follows Lucas Baldwin, the young son of a powerful lord. On his first deep-space mission as he advances through a captured alien facility he encounters a lunatic girl about his age. Only later does he realize that the girl, Rachel, is speaking English, a long-dead language. Rachel talks of an Earth still in existence and more advanced than the horse-and-buggy world that had supposedly been destroyed.

I’ve written over 13,000 words of Return to Earth and really want to see it completed this year.  

Looking forward to a COVID-free world, what professional goals or plans have you made? Let me know in the comment section below.