A New Year, a New Page by Wendy H. Jones

 


Every year I have the honour of posting the first blog of the year. I love doing this but it can be slightly nerve wracking - what can I say that is fresh and new. Here we stand with a fresh new year stretching before us a blank canvas, or new page if you like, on which we write the story of our lives.  We always approach the new year with so much excitement and anticipation, at least I do anyway. It’s such a hopeful time of year. Others of you may share my excitement. Some of you may approach it with dread wondering what life will throw at you this year. Both of these are valid. I don’t have any sage advise here. What I do have is hope  and the knowledge that we can all take one day at a time. Every single day of this year is a new beginning. Every day is a chance for us to move our writing and our author career forward. Every day is a new opportunity and a new blessing. So, as we stand at the entrance to a new year, I would encourage you to take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way. Let your imagination take flight and enjoy every single literary filled day of 2023. May your literary dreams come true. 

About the Author

Wendy H Jones is the Amazon #1 international best-selling author of the award winning DI Shona McKenzie Mysteries. Her Young Adult Mystery, The Dagger’s Curse was a finalist in the Woman Alive Readers' Choice Award. She is also The President of the Scottish Association of Writers, an international public speaker, and runs conferences and workshops on writing, motivation and marketing.  She is the editor of a Lent Book, published by the Association of Christian Writers and also the editor of the Christmas Anthology from the same publisher. Her first children's book, Bertie the Buffalo, was released in December 2018. Motivation Matters: Revolutionise Your Writing One Creative Step at a Time, was released in May 2019. The Power of Why: Why 23 Women Took the Leap to Start Their Own Business was released on 29th June, 2020. Marketing Matters: Sell More Books was released on 31st July 2020. Bertie Goes to the Worldwide Games will be released on 5th May, 202,  and the third book in the Fergus and Flora Mysteries will be published in 2021. Her new author membership Authorpreneur Accelerator Academy launched in January 2021. Creativity Matters: Find Your Passion for Writing the third book in her Writing Matters Series was published in September 2021. Wendy's latest release is Killer's Curse, the seventh book in the DI Shona McKenzie Mysteries. Wendy is represented by Amy Collins of Talcott Notch Literary Services. 


Comments

  1. Thank you Wendy for your encouragement. Happy New Year to you too! May our writing go from strength to strength in 2023.

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  2. Thank you Wendy. I so agree with you. Every new day is a fresh opportunity. May we remember that and live up to it through all life throws at us!

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    1. Thank you. Let’s take this year and make it one that counts.

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  3. Happy New Year to you too! Amen to your prayer for our Literary dreams. And thanks for the great advice given here: TAKE ONE DAY AT A TIME. Blessings.

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    1. You are welcome. I pray your literary dreams are realised.

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  4. I think I need to live more in the moment and enjoy it. Thanks for the reminder, Wendy. Bless you.

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    1. I think we all do, Sheila. Happy New yera nad many blessings.

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  5. That's the thing about having the 1st of the month slot. Once a year it's New Year! Pitched just right - most encouraging as we head into the damp days of January.

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    1. Yep, a new year rallying cry is a regular occurrence.

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