Good luck with the pacing yourself part! I made the mistake of scheduling a book release for December 28 and it kind of hijacked everything including Christmas. While the business end of things says, “capture those post, holiday sales!“ Asking your editor for edits in your review team for typos by December 20 is not realistic, not to mention trying to input those edits while visiting family in someone else’s house. Not recommended if I ever do a holiday release again, it will be paced out well in advance! Or at least, so I tell myself. I also had to put my newsletter on hiatus through January 9, which wasn’t a plan either. I always come back to: “you do what you can do” and I generally find my readers are very supportive and forgiving.
Glad to read you're taking time for yourself. As a person over 50, healthy priorities do matter more than deadlines. We can't get time back, and so we carefully "measure" every day.
Looking forward to a very creative 2023 with you, Jason!
Good luck with the pacing yourself part! I made the mistake of scheduling a book release for December 28 and it kind of hijacked everything including Christmas. While the business end of things says, “capture those post, holiday sales!“ Asking your editor for edits in your review team for typos by December 20 is not realistic, not to mention trying to input those edits while visiting family in someone else’s house. Not recommended if I ever do a holiday release again, it will be paced out well in advance! Or at least, so I tell myself. I also had to put my newsletter on hiatus through January 9, which wasn’t a plan either. I always come back to: “you do what you can do” and I generally find my readers are very supportive and forgiving.
Glad to read you're taking time for yourself. As a person over 50, healthy priorities do matter more than deadlines. We can't get time back, and so we carefully "measure" every day.
Looking forward to a very creative 2023 with you, Jason!