Monthly Round-Up: Reading, Writing and – Ok, Not Arithmetic.

And what a busy month it’s been.

I don’t usually delve too much into the personal, but February’s been a month filled with it. Discovering my residency visa has been horribly delayed (and threatening my day job in the process),  illness, starting new projects and redesigning current ones has left the shortest month even shorter than usual.

To whoever took the last week of February: I want it back.

On the plus side, there’s been plenty to report.

Reading:

I’m now 19 out of 60 books for my reading challenge and still going strong. Current new favorite authors include Kristen Callihan and Tracey Sinclair, and I’m so excited to finally find some urban fantasies with some life. I’m still on the fence about The Mercy Thompson series. I got the first three books at a big book sale, so I’m going to decide after I read the third one if I’ll continue or not.

Reading and reviewing for Indie Books R Us has been fun and educational. I’ve learned so much about books from the other end, and the women I work with are fabulous.

 

Writing:

Steady progress on my current novel continues. I’m hoping to get the first draft finished this month, if the crazy storm keeps down low. Looking forward to my editor working her blue pen magic.

Almost finished is the second in the Entwined Chronicles, which, barring further giant leaps in wordage, will be out March 15th. It’s quite a bit longer than Fugue, and it’s turned out longer than I originally anticipated. Series fans won’t be disappointed in the story’s continuation.

 

Random Fun Bits:

We adopted a kitten in December as our gift to ourselves. Since then, Fagin has grown from a tiny little furball into a monster kitten. Weighing over three kilos, he’s the biggest five month old kitten I’ve seen.

As a comparison, here’s him when we got him:

 

And here he is two weeks ago:

 

He may be part-lion.