Rebecca M. Zornow

20 from ’25

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Like last year, I’m sharing 20 writing achievements from 2025. I do this as an exercise with a writing group I lead and it makes for a strong, end-of-year reflection. We often forget the achievements we were so excited to bring to fruition in February or the big project that worked out just as we hoped in June.

While writing these, I forgot I usually share the list here, so you’re getting the real, unfiltered version of me pumping myself up:

1. Published Landsome Roads
 
2. Produced Landsome Ruins
 
3. Wrote Landsome #3
 
4. Utilized my assistant to give me more time to write
 
5. Had a book tour
 
6. Lines of people waiting for a signed book
 
 
8. Did morning pages
 
9. Moved into my dream office
 
10. Spoke at the Central Wisconsin Book Festival
 
 
 
13. Hosted a literary holiday party
 
14. Gave my first paper in the Wednesday Club
 
15. Read 43+ published books plus a whole lot of manuscripts
 
16. Started an ARC Team
 
17. Worked with an illustrator to make custom character art for my book covers
 
18. Drove to and in Milwaukee by myself–twice–as well as back from Chicago
 
19. Planned out my next 4 series of books
 
20. Persevered through Amazon customer service to resolve an issue on a book listing
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A science fiction author living in Wisconsin, I love traveling, eating good food, and reading long books.

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