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I started reading Full Moon Over Freedom last night. This is the second book in a small town contemporary romance series featuring three Mexican-American sisters. They have all recently returned home as adults, each for their own reasons. I really enjoyed the first book in this series, and this second book follows the “perfect” (and potentially also witchy) sister in a second-chance romance. I read the first two chapters before bed last night and am excited to be back in this world with a...

Countdown to Winter Solstice

Now that NaNoWriMo is over, I am excited to start transitioning into the cozy reading phase of my year, and I want to try something I’ve always wanted to do but have always been too intimidated to attempt. Blogmas!

In case you are unfamiliar with this concept, it’s basically some format of a post a day during the month of December. Some people do an abbreviated “12 days of Blogmas” version. Others go one a day for the whole month. And I think some only do a countdown to Christmas.

I’ve...

Celebrating Lightfall! (aka Magical Readathon time!)

As soon as I’m finished writing the draft of this novel, I want to bury myself in books and just read non-stop until the end of the year.

Realistically, I know that I’m not actually going to be done after I finish this draft, but I think I can manage to carve out at least one week to celebrate Lightfall (aka participate in another Orilium Magical Readathon). It sounds like EXACTLY what I need.

So, even though I should be writing right now. I’m taking a moment to consider my Lightfall TBR.

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October Reading Recap

And now for the update you’ve all been waiting for (hahaha)! Did I read everything on my October TBR? Did I finish the TWO hardcover books I have in progress? Read on to find out…

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What’s missing from this picture? That’s right. The Foxglove King and Bone Crier’s Moon. I didn’t finish them in October.

Here’s what I did finish reading:

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh — I LOVED this book. This was one of those books that was so very ME that I could barely put it down and...

A Planner Update for the Planners

Back at the start of the year, I mentioned I was planning on using two planners this year. One was a Passion Planner weekly for managing my writing goals that I also planned to use as a reading journal. The other was going to be my free-form bullet journal which would be where I kept track of my daily to-do lists and household admin tasks.

How it started…

That set-up lasted about six months.

Can you guess what caused my system to fail?

If you guessed the Passion Planner, then you pro...

End of the Year Reading Plans

I have a LOT of writing that needs to get done before the end of the year, but there are also a lot of books that I want to read (aka: the story of my life). If I can manage to get back into that “deep work” groove I had going back in April, this won’t be a problem. But I have been really struggling to resurrect whatever it was I was doing before.

October has (so far) been a better reading month than September. But I’ve only finished two books so far this month. I have another three in progre...

September Wrap-Up

September was a busy month for me with not a lot of reading.

I spent the first half of the month occupied with the Writing Excuses cruise to Alaska. First packing and prepping, then going on the actual cruise (which was great!), and then recovering and catching up on all the annoying life stuff I’d neglected while I’d been away. Not to mention, as soon as I got home, I had to scramble to get Poison of Power finished and published. Which it is now! So check it out if you’re curious about my ne...

Orilium Readathon Grades (aka Reading Wrap-Up)

Well, here we are. Halfway through September, and I have yet to post my readathon wrap-up. Partly that is because I was gone for the first week of September, and I’m only now kind of back into my normal(ish) routine.

But also (and it pains me to write this) for the first time in the history of my participation in the Magical Readathons, I did not finish all my classes (prompts). I’m pretty bummed about it.

If you remember from my TBR post, I had six books I needed to read, plus one bonus b...

What I’ve been reading

In my last inbox/outbox post, I was surprised to learn that I’d nearly hit my Goodreads annual reading goal of 52 books, and it wasn’t quite mid-year. Well, now July has ended, and I still haven’t hit my goal. So, I guess you could say that my pace of reading has slowed down a bit.

When last we checked in, I was at 42 books read. I am now up to 48 books read.Which means, assuming I can manage my August Orilium Autumn Equinox TBR, I should definitely surpass the 52 book mark this month.

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Orilium Autumn Equinox Readathon TBR

August is almost here! Which means that it’s time for the Orilium Autumn Equinox!

(It also means that it’s nearly time for back-to-school sales on stationery… but that’s not what this blog post is about… so I’m going to ignore that temptation for the moment and get back to the topic of this post… Readathon Time!)

During this session at the Orilium Academy, I will be working to level-up in my chosen calling of Story Weaver. To do that, I need to achieve the following grades in the follow su...