By Jenny Milchman
A new year is upon us! Let me tell you my writing and reading goals, not resolutions, for the new year!
Reading Goal: Discovering my father’s breadth of book tastes.
Writing Goal: Getting my notes together and refining my process!
What about you, readers? What are your reading (and writing!) goals for 2025?
Meet The Rogue:
Jenny Milchman is the Mary Higgins Clark award winning and PEN/Faulkner nominated author of five novels of suspense. Her work has been praised by the New York Times, chosen as Indie Next Picks, received starred reviews from PW, Booklist, and Library Journal, selected for numerous Best Of’s including Suspense Magazine, Pure Wow and Popsugar, and appeared on the USA Today bestsellers list (once, but we authors like to name these things). In 2013, Jenny rented out her house, traded in two cars for an SUV that could handle Denver in February, and pulled her kids out of 1st and 3rd grades to “car-school” them on what Shelf Awareness called the world’s longest book tour. Jenny now speaks nationally on the literal and figurative road to a dream.
Such great ideas!! I’m looking forward to expanding my reading this year, especially after my retirement date.
Good ideas, Jenny. One of my goals for 2025 is to do extensive research for an idea I have for my next thriller. When I say “extensive” – it will have be – because it will be about a part of the world I’ve never visited, but which could have a big impact on our country.
The reading goal has inspired me. I recently reread Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl , a book I read with my Dad when I was about 13. Great adventure story! I was inspired by a trip my husband and I have planned to visit Easter Island. Visiting my bookshelves I saw lots of books in various genres that I’ve not read. I own them. I display them. Guess it’s time to find out what inspired me to buy them in the first place—or inspired my dad. Some are 1st editions owned by my grandmother. Let’s compare notes.