Review Of My 2022 Creative Business Goals

Another year ends, and once more, it's time to reflect on our creative goals. I hope you will take the time to review your goals, and leave a comment below about how the year went. Did you achieve everything you wanted to?

You can read my 2022 goals here and I reflect on what I achieved below.

* Books for authors — Joanna Penn

* Fiction as J.F. Penn — thrillers, dark fantasy, crime, horror, short stories

* Shift to the Creator Economy and focus on selling direct

* Embrace multi-passionate creativity — and optimize for curiosity — as we move into The Creative Future.

* Generative AI, NFTs, and more

* The Creative Penn website and podcast

* Book-binding: Limited hand-bound edition of A Thousand Fiendish Angels

* I achieved a lifetime goal of walking the Camino de Santiago — and finished my Pilgrimage book

* The end of my Books and Travel Podcast

* Travel and speaking, health and personal things

Header image generated by Joanna Penn on Midjourney.

Books for authors — Joanna Penn

I've had a draft of How to Write a Novel in my Work In Progress drive for over five years, but this year, I overcame resistance and finally finished it.

I was worried that I didn't have anything to add to the millions of other books on writing craft, but it turned out to be useful for some people, especially those who write out of order and are discovery writers.

I launched the book direct on my Shopify store, CreativePennBooks.com and sold it exclusively direct for a month before publishing it wide. It's now available on all platforms, in all formats, including the audiobook narrated by me.

Click here to buy it direct from me.

Click here to buy it from other stores.

Fiction as J.F. Penn — thrillers, dark fantasy, crime, horror, short stories

In the first quarter of 2022, I re-edited my first novel, Stone of Fire, and the subsequent two novels, Crypt of Bone, and Ark of Blood.

Click here for my lessons learned from re-editing.

Was it worth it?

Yes, creatively, because I am much happier about advertising the early books in the series now. Financially, I can't see any impact, but it was still personally worth it, especially as it helped me see how far my writing has come since that first novel in 2009 and the lessons helped me to finish <a href="https://www.