So over the course of the 4+ years of writing my novel I'd say I've made about 10 different deadlines for myself. I've only met three of them. As you can imagine this is pretty frustrating, so I'm determined to make the one I've now set. Until that happens I've gotta leave off the blog for a bit. (all reviews that were scheduled will still happen just a while later) Cause it seems like every time I sit down to work on finishing the last bits of revision for my novel I work on my blog instead. But if I do...
Stitch Author: Samantha Durante Length: ~ 314 pages Genre: Romance/Dystopian Heat level: Clean Stars:4 Stupendous Purple Stars Book Summary: Her heart races, her muscles coil, and every impulse in Alessa’s body screams at her to run… but yet she’s powerless to move. Still struggling to find her footing after the sudden death of her parents, the last thing college freshman Alessa has the strength to deal with is the inexplicable visceral pull drawing her to a handsome ghostly presence...
Bitnapped Author: J. T. Carroll Length: ~ 137 pages Genre: Suspense Heat level: Clean Stars:2.5 Somewhere Between Stars Book Summary: Kelly graduated from MIT, but it wasn't enough to secure her dream job in this economy. Instead, she labors as an intern at a software company. On the way to work one morning, Kelly interrupts a masked man who is kidnapping her despised boss, Rupert. The kidnapper decides to bring Kelly along for the ride. Kelly and Rupert must escape to prevent the ki...
The new family of four!So some, (who knows maybe many?) of you are wondering why the posts aren't as often as they used to be? Well it's because I have a new little daughter! That's right, on Jan 27, 2013 7:09pm Kaia Renee came into this world. Albeit by emergency c-section which was scary, but I'm okay and Kaia is wonderful. (It wasn't REALLY bad as in rushing to the operating room everyone get out of the way, but as my OB put it, the operation was an urgent emergency situation, as opposed to an emergen...
Falling For Your Madness Author: Katharine Grubb Length: ~ 250 pages Genre: Romance Heat level: Clean Stars:3.5 Somewhere Between Stars Book Summary: Eccentric literature professor David approaches Laura for a counter-cultural, rule-filled relationship filled with poetry, flowers and bottom-less cups of tea. He makes it very clear to her that they are just friends. If she wants to be more -- if she wants to be sweethearts -- then she is the only one that can move them forward. Laura...
Thankfully nowhere near this thoughAfter all the illnesses and blog hiatuses and chunks of time eaten up by my pregnancy, I finally tackled catching up on my book review requests. It has taken me a huge amount of time to catch up. Wow. 100+ emails. I really need to stay on top of this stuff more. Thankfully I am now back at the forefront of my inbox and things are running somewhat smoothly again. Although I am still in the process of narrow down the list to decide what to review.My biggest irritant that ...
So my blog has again fallen into a dark abyss of 0 posts for way too long. But hopefully I can it pull it back up again. It was a bit of a wake up call today when I noticed that the listing for this blog on a book reviewer 'yellow page' type site now says my blog is "no longer updating". Eeep! Well we're gonna have to change that. I've been having some better days healthwise in the last little bit, hopefully it'll keep going so that I can get ahead in my posts and have some leeway if I don't feel up to t...
Matched Author: Ally Condie Length: ~ 369 pages Genre: Dystopian Heat level: Clean Stars:4 Stupendous Purple Stars Book Summary: Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.The Society tells her it'...
So much to my regret I did not meet my goal and was unable to submit my manuscript to Harper Voyager for Oct 14th. I was short about 5000 words. Plus it didn't help that I became ill in the last few days before the deadline. Needless to say I am disappointed, but I did get a significant amount of writing done. I still plan on submitting to agents and I have two other deadlines set for myself. Hopefully I can hit both of those. This is the life of a writer, there's times where you make deadlines and there...
So as of right now I won't be writing any reviews or posting until after Oct 14, 2012. I'm writing and editing at an insane pace because I want my manuscript to be as polished as possible before I send it to Harper Voyager on Oct 14th. For more details see here: Writing and Editing Like Mad. Harper Voyager Taking Unsolicited Manuscripts.Thanks for the understanding. This deadline is coming up fast and I need every spare minute.Cheers!
