Five Year Plan

Okay, here goes... anyone have any suggestions let me know:)

Career Plan Teri Brown 2007-2012

Goals

• Earn a minimum of sixty thousand dollars by year 2012
• Join PRO and then PAN (when able) via RWA
• Join NINC (when able)
• Join PASIC (when able)
• Attend RWA National Conference when published and every other year after that.
• Attend RT the years I don’t go to RWA Nationals
• Attend two regional conferences every year.
• Enter a minimum of three contests every year.
• Create more time so I can work uninterrupted hours.
• Double my nonfiction income until I start consistently selling fiction books
• Join Freelance Success

Strategy To Attain Goals

• Use a daily and weekly action plan to track my work to make sure I’m on pace.
• Pay attention to the market. What’s Hot? What’s Not?
• Once I sell the first book, establish myself in YA fiction and series romance. Try to publish/write five books a year.
• Study the romance works of Shirley Jump, Jane Porter and Pamela Britton, who write the way I want to write. Also study the YA work of Mari Mancusi, Simone Echols and Bev Katz Rosenbaum, who write the way I write.
• Continue to study my craft with books, workshops, writing classes and my critique partners.
• Read as many award winning books in my genres as I can.
• Judge two contests a year.
• Study the market.
• Once contracted, develop an extensive mailing list of readers and book sellers.
• Start developing a trade magazine client base
• Send out three queries a week
• Suscribe to RT Magazine
• Update my goals every December
• On signing my first contract, get a website.
• Get enough sleep.
• Eat healthy so my mind and body can keep up with my demands
• Exercise daily so I can have the endurance to meet my goals.