Weekly Check-in #14

 What I've been Writing:

Pretty much no writing happened for me this week, sorry.  I didn't even get my story's document file opened. I've been so busy, my brain feels full! I mean, there was one point at 2:30am on Thursday night that I couldn't sleep, and I wrote a few lines of dialogue on my phone's note app. (One of those lines being, "You really shouldn't have made her cry," for the story Day Robber.) But that was it. 

What I've been Reading: 

Welp. I finished reading Book 6 of the Tommen series by Chloe Walsh (Releasing 10), and it was brutal and agonizing, smothered over a healthy layer of depressing and hopeless with a slight aftertaste of just plain sad. If you like getting your guts ripped out through your nose, and not really put back together again, then this book is for you!

Then I started on Hopeless Hunter (aka Crimson Moth) by Kristen Ciccarelli. Every scene with Gideon and Rune together just crackles with electricity. I'm loving it.

What I've been Buying:

This week, I bought A Curse Carved in Bone at Books-a-Million, and I received The Dragon Republic in the mail.

Weekly Check-in #13

 What I've Been Writing - 

Day Robber (which used to be Dearest Thief) - I had a really good writing day at the beginning of the week, and I thought—wow—I was going to gets a lot of words in, but then the rest of the week turned into chaos in real life, so it ended up being just a regular week in my writing endeavors. But we're making progress and are now at 72,000 words written. I have a feeling I'm not going to get as much of the story told in the first book as I wanted to.  But we shall see. The first 19 chapters are completed.

What I've Been Reading - 

I'm just plugging right along with the Boys of Tommen series.  

I finished reading Book 4 (Redeeming 6) and then zoomed through Book 5 (Taming 7).  

My daughter was still working on Book 6 by that point, so I was going to read something else while I waited on her, and also because she kept putting the book in the corner and telling it that it needed to think about what it had done, so I was also a bit intimidated to start.  

But then the kid said I couldn't start anything else while I waited, and I had to read the sixth book next because if she read it, then I had to.  

And I was all like, "You can't tell me what to read," and she shot back, "Yes, I can." And I was like, "Damn, she really can." This girl totally has me wrapped around her little finger. But anyway, she finished Book 6 yesterday, and yes... I have started it. Pray for me!

What I've been Buying:

This week, my book haul is one book. But she's a beaut!  Check out The Robin on the Oak Throne. I shared my unboxing of it on TikTok if you want to see the endpaper and hard case. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj7j6j2K/ 

Weekly Check-in #12

 What I've been Writing:

Day Robber (formerly known as Dearest Thief) - 63,000 words written!  I have the first sixteen chapters completed. 

Zero Chance - Just thought I'd mention that it's RELEASE DAY for my baby!  Happy exposure to the world, Keene and Waverly. For more information about how you can get your hands on their story, here is their webpage.

What I've Been Reading:

So I'm fully immersed in the Boys of Tommen life right now.  

-Finished reading Book 2 (Keeping 13) this week. **Love Johnny!  #SuperDreamySigh**  Seriously. When he steals Shannon's little brothers for the day? How could I not adore this boy?

-And I finished reading Book 3 (Saving 6) as well. Joey and Aoife are extremely intense. 

So now I'm working my way through Book 4.  There's just something about drug addiction that makes my heart hurt. It makes everything feel so hopeless and lost. But I can't stop reading it. It's just... Captivating. It'll all be okay in the end with a happily ever after, though, right? RIGHT?!!!

What I've been Buying:

Oooh, did I get the book haul this week or what? Look! Just look at all my new pretties.  I love them. Even if Holly the cat thinks they smell sus.

1. The Summer We Ran (from Book of the Month Club) 
2. Rebel Witch (from OwlCrate) 
3. A Fate of Wrath & Flame: Fate & Flame Book 1 (from KA Tucker's Website) 
4. A Curse of Blood & Stone: Fate & Flame Book 2 (from KA Tucker's Website)
5. A Queen of Thieves & Chaos: Fate & Flame Book 3 (from KA Tucker's Website)
6. A Dawn of Gods & Fury: Fate & Flame Book 4 (from KA Tucker's Website)
7. Butcher & Blackbird (from Amazon)
8. Enigma (from Amazon
9. You Were Never Not Mine (from Amazon)

Weekly Check-in #11

 What I’ve Been Writing:

DAY ROBBER – Formerly known as Dearest Thief. We’re 55,000 words into this thing now, and I finally thought up a backstory that I think I’m going to stick with that will help move the plot along going forward. So…it’s about this kingdom called Janek, whose royal tsar was recently kidnapped by a foreign emperor, leaving the throne ripe for the plucking. Rebel bands are rising, the prince is trying to step in and run things, neighboring kingdoms are licking their chops greedily. It’s a mess. All the while, this orphaned thief in the backstreets of some poor village called Pithany just wants to find her missing brother. Except her fevered search lands her right in the middle of the fight for the crown and between two fellas who each want her on their side.

 

ZERO CHANCE – I received a physical copy of Keene and Waverly’s book, so I just had to eek about it for a moment!

 

What I’ve been Reading:

I did it!  I finally finished reading the Flesh and Fire series! Whew. It took me the whole month of May and maybe half an hour into June 1^st, but I got through all the books.  And they were epic.

So after that, my fifteen-year-old said I had to read the Boys of Tommen series. I kind of wanted to do something shorter, that wasn’t in a big series since I just came out of one of those. But I can’t say no to my kid, so I started Binding 13, and now…I’m hooked. You could give me twenty of these books, all eight hundred pages each, and I’d be here for it. I’m currently working my way through Book 2 at the moment.

 

What I’ve been Buying:

I got a used copy of Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli off Mercari (never went through them before) because I ordered Book 2 in this series from OwlCrate (whom I’ve also never bought from before). Heartless Hunter was no longer offered there, however, and it felt all kinds of wrong to receive Book 2 before Book 1.  But thankfully, Mercari helped me out with that, and Book 1 arrived in perfect condition. Can’t tell it’s been pre-owned at all. AND it arrived before the second book, which will probably be here next week. So I’m relieved that worked out as smoothly as it did.