Here is the December question:
For many people, the new year is a time for making resolutions and setting goals.
What are some of your writing resolutions or goals for 2008?
Any great research trips planned? Writing in a new genre? A new series?
Redoing your office? Let us know a little about what 2008 looks like for you.

Julie Miller:  My number one writing goal this year is to stay on schedule because I'm adding in two extra books to the number I've been writing the past 2-3 years. Hopefully, I'll be able to actually get ahead of schedule so that I can complete that fifth and sixth book without stressing too much. Writing my own four book mini-series (The Precinct: Brotherhood of the Badge) has proven to be as challenging as it is exciting because of the suspense elements that are a part of each individual book, as well as the story arc that crosses all four stories. And those who've read me, know how I like a good twisty mystery! So there's a lot of story there. I think it'll prove to be an exciting series for the readers as well. The mini-series launches in June of this year with Protective Instincts, and follows in July with Armed and Devastating. But I still have to finish the third and fourth books, as well as write two Blaze projects (one to celebrate Harlequin's 60th anniversary in 2009!) and one more Intrigue.

A secondary goal is to finish up my single title paranormal manuscript. I'll share more details on that project as I know more. But that's another project I plan to finish this year. So, amongst all those other time commitments (like my son's graduation, at least one national conference and one regional writers retreat, teaching part-time and lots more), staying on track in 2008 will make all my other writing goals fall into place!

Dana Marton: My writing goal for 2008 is to create stories that will take readers on fast-paced adventures around the world. I visited Cyprus a while back. I'd like to return there and research that location for a spy thriller. A new year is always so exciting and so full of possibilities. I'm looking forward to getting to know my new heroes and falling in love with them as I write.

B.J. Daniels: I do love the new year and that feeling of a new beginning. I always have lots of goals. Goal #1: I'm having such a ball with my Whitehorse series. There are so many more mysteries including illegally adopted babies to uncover. The series continues in April with Matchmaking With a Mission and May with Second Chance Cowboy. Watch Romantic Times Magazine for my article about Second Chance Cowboy -- and redeeming heroines -- in the May issue. But the Whitehorse series doesn't end there. I'm coming back June, July and August of next year with three more as the five Corbett brothers hit town.

Goal #2: Organize my office. Hey, it's got to be done. :) Goal #3: Write that big book. This has been a long time coming and 2008 is the year. I'll keep you posted.

Rita Herron: I'm excited to say that the New Year finds me working on a new paranormal romantic suspense trilogy for Grand Central Publishing.  In fact, I'm working on revising the first book in the trilogy right now! The book is scheduled for September '08, and we're talking titles for the individual stories and series now. As soon as the revisions for book one are done, I'm diving into writing the second book, then the third. Really fun to mix my normal dark romantic suspense with a deeper paranormal hook!  Of course, I'll still be writing Intrigues - both my Nighthawk Island series, another Texas Ranger book, and I'm starting a new mini series for Intrigue that evolves around Missing Persons cases. To add to the list, I'm taking a screenwriting class in February that  I"m excited about. Haven't decided yet what project I'll use for it-- I have a couple of different ideas I'm toying with - one is a stand alone, paranormal romantic suspense, and the other would be the beginning of yet a new paranormal series!

Ann Voss Peterson: 2008 is going to be a great year. One of the most exciting new things for this year is the new Thriller subseries from Harlequin Intrigue. It debuts with my March release, Wyoming Manhunt. I've always loved the intensity and fast pace of the Intrigue line, and this new subseries captures that feel then ramps it up a notch. As always, I hope to do more writing and reading and traveling...and earning my gold belt in my new karate classes would be great fun. Really there's so much I want to do, I doubt a year will be long enough to pack it all in. But here's to giving it a good try!

Patricia Rosemoor: I've already decided that in 2008 I'm going to slow down a bit. I've been running full tilt in this business for so long, I need to breathe once in a while. I thought I might take some time off in the summer just to do...well, whatever I need to do to make myself happy. Like executing that mosaic installation in my garden that I've been dreaming of since last year. I'm hoping that finding balance will regenerate my creative writing side. That my books will benefit from that. I just worked on a proposal for the last book in The McKenna Legacy series (the elusive Quin's story), and I am now thinking about a related series for another branch of the McKennas cursed never to find love and happiness. I have yet to figure out how the curse works and how they overcome it. Something very fun to think about. It has to be right, because once I start the series, I have to go with whatever I develop. And writers inevitably get new ideas once they actually start writing....

Susan Kearney: This year I'm making no New Year's resolutions. But writing-wise, I'm going back to my sexy, futuristic space books in Feb with Solar Heat. I just finished making the book video and you can see it on my website.   Then in July I'm doing another single title romantic suspense for Tor and in Sept I'm in an anthology. Between all that, I'm working on my 09 books, trying to land my double jumps in figure skating, and working hard to add arm movements to belly dance moves. In addition, I now have two Boston Terriers, a bunch of fish and a three foot long iguana.

Delores Fossen: I'm thrilled that 2008 will be busy for me. I'm finishing up my present series with the release of the Newborn Conspiracy and The Horseman's Son. Those books will be released in February and March 2008. Then, in October my new miniseries, Texas Paternity, begins. Texas Paternity,  will be five stories about lawmen who are doing double duty as single fathers.  As for 2008 research trips, I plan to visit the YO ranch in Bandera, Texas. I grew up on a ranch/farm so it's familiar ground for me, but I want to get a feel for how a large ranch operates. I'm also going on an archeological dig in late May. I'm not sure how I'll use the info in a book, but I'm sure I'll find a place for it.

Mallory Kane: I don't usually make New Year's resolutions. They just make me feel guilty. All my goals for 2008 will be centered around writing my 3-book mini-series scheduled for April, May and June of 2009. It's daunting to consider writing 3 connected books back to back. Daunting, yet at the same time really exciting. The series is called Black Hills Brotherhood. It centers around 3 boys who were rescued from certain death on a stormy mountain top when they were eleven. Their rescuer, a Vietnam vet who was an Air Force Combat Rescue Officer, died saving them. That day they vowed to dedicate their lives to rescuing innocents.

Sylvie Kurtz: I don't do resolutions or year-planning at the beginning of the year. We all know how those plans tend to go. Instead, I wait until my birthday month, then I look back at the year that's just gone by, see how many of my goals I reached, then plan based on that, throwing in a few pie-in-the-sky goals for good measure. I don't see any big changes on the horizon for 2008. I have a few short trips planned: New York City in March; Chicago in May. As for writing, my goal there is to make each story I write the best I can. I hope to continue writing suspense/adventure/romance for a long time. I wish all Intrigue readers the best for 2008--health, happiness and many stories with perfect endings.

Paula Graves: Like a lot of writers, I have a full time day job, so my goal for 2008 is to get focused and discipline about my writing during the time I do have available to me. I'd really like to sell at least three books in 2008 so that I can get my name out there more regularly. I'm also hoping to get a lot of research done for an ongoing series of thriller-style stories I'd like to start writing within the next year or so.