April 2011 stats

Books Read and Recommended
Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis
Careless in Red by Elizabeth George
A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George
With No One As Witness by Elizabeth George
Getting the Girl by Marcus Zusak
Winter Faerie by Janni Lee Simner
Red Glove by Holly Black
Recovery Road by Blake Nelson
The Auslander by Paul Dowswell

I just haven't been reading as much lately. I feel sad about this. Books just aren't doing it for me right now. I get annoyed easily and I just don't care about characters in a way that would make me want to keep spending time with them. I feel like I can predict what happens and if I've read the first ten pages, that's all the new fun stuff the author has to offer. This may just be my own mental state, easily distracted preparing for the Ironman and frustrated with some writing blocks that I am not ready to discuss yet.

Some of the projects I have been working on this month include:

Magic and Misapprehension, a sort of Jane Austen with magic book.

The Man I Married, an adult re-romance, what I think of as Pride and Prejudice for married people wanting to fall in love again. Has some (what I think are) very funny scenes with a kooky therapist.

An Ideal Boyfriend, which is a book I am writing just for fun, for me, not under contract. I think I will always work on projects speculatively. I just need to creatively spend time working on something that I don't have to be critical about. Or not as critical. I can just let it write itself, see where it is going, and if I don't like it later, that's all right. No expectations.