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January 2, 2015
Reading in the New Year
I am pretty well shocked that it’s already 2015. From here on out, we are referring to 2014 as the Lost Year. (Readers Digest version: we moved a year ago, bunking with my grandpa for what we thought would be about six weeks until we could find a home. We will finally be moving into our new house sometime this month.)
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about reading. I keep track of all the books I read each year, and I’ve noticed that once I hit something I like, I tend to read a TON in that par...
December 18, 2014
CLASS OF 2014 YA Superlatives Blogfest – BEST IN SHOW
TheClass of 2014: YA Superlatives Blogfestis hosted byJessica Love,Katy Upperman,Alison Miller,andTracey Neithercott.
A couple of these have multiple answers. Because I can’t pick just one best cover. 
(More info on Pinterest and all that good stuff.)
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December 17, 2014
CLASS OF 2014 YA Superlatives Blogfest – ELEMENTS OF FICTION
TheClass of 2014: YA Superlatives Blogfestis hosted byJessica Love,Katy Upperman,Alison Miller,andTracey Neithercott.
(As always, click on over to Pinterest to say more. It’s late, so I’ll just jump into the board now.)
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December 16, 2014
CLASS OF 2014 YA Superlatives Blogfest – POPULARITY CONTEST
TheClass of 2014: YA Superlatives Blogfestis hosted byJessica Love,Katy Upperman,Alison Miller,andTracey Neithercott.
Last year, because of packing and moving and general craziness, I didn’t participate in the YA Superlatives. But I did in 2012, and thanks to sequels (I’m looking at you, Steifvater!) this list looksa lotlike the one for 2012. (Again, click over to Pinterest to see my thoughts, if you want.)
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December 15, 2014
CLASS OF 2014 YA Superlatives Blogfest – HEAD OF THE CLASS
TheClass of 2014: YA Superlatives Blogfestis hosted by Jessica Love, Katy Upperman, Alison Miller,and Tracey Neithercott.
I was pretty much contemporary obsessed this year, so I read very little spec-fic. So I cheated on a couple categories and used older books. Head to the Pinterest board to see my thoughts about the books.
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December 9, 2014
Top Ten Tuesday
image borrowed from A Hoot and a Half Reading
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted byThe Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is:
Top TenNew-to-me Authors I Read in 2014
(Some of these are debuts, so they were new toeveryone, but whatever. Still counts.)
In no particular order:
(Clockwise from the giant picture) Emery Lord // Morgan Matson // Jason Segel (Kirsten Miller is not new to me) //Marisha Pessl // Erin Morgenstern // Harper Lee (I know, I know…way behind here...
December 5, 2014
Holiday Query Blog Hop: SOMEONE ELSE’S SUMMER (YA CONTEMP)
First off,HUGE THANK YOUto Michelle Hauck for organizing the Holiday Query Blog Hop. This is such a great opportunity to get feedback on query letters. If you’re an author looking for query feedback, you should jump on it – sign-ups are open through December 14th.
I’ve decided to give it a go with a query forSomeone Else’s Summer.Since Ijustfinished the first draft, I obviously had no intention of querying for a while, but thought this would be a fun and helpful challenge. So I spent the last...
December 3, 2014
What’s Up Wednesday
What’s Up Wednesday is a weekly meme for writers and readers, meant to give us a quick way to touch base with bloggy friends and let them know what’s up.
It’s hosted byJaime MorrowandErin Funk.
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What I’m reading:
In paperback, I’ve gotTo Kill a Mockingbird.Which is excellent, but has been sorely neglected this past month when I was so busy with NaNo. I’m back to it now, thought, and loving it.
On my nook, I haveThe Festival of the Moonby Spencer Baum. It’s the second in hisGirls Wearing Blackseri...
December 2, 2014
Top Ten Tuesday
image borrowed from A Hoot and a Half Reading
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is:
Top Ten BooksI’m Looking Forward to in 2015
(I have way more than ten than I’m anticipating…so these are the first ten non-debuts I came up with. Because we are doing debuts in a few weeks.)
All Fall Down // Ally Carter
I’ll Meet You There // Heather Demetrios
Fish out of Water // Natalie Whipple*
Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Magical Creatures // Jackson Pearce & Maggie St...
December 1, 2014
Post NaNo Thoughts
I spent the month of November joining thousands of other novelists in the mad dash noveling experience known as NaNoWriMo*.The idea of NaNo is to write 50,000 words in one month – for some that’s a whole novel, for others the start of a longer novel. Me being me, I set out to write a full book in the month, and I knew it would be longer than 50,000 words, because they always are. In the end, my shiny new novel came in at 71,996 words, all written at a manic pace last month.
So, now, in my slee...
