My Shelf-ish Week #60

What I've Been Writing: 

I think (hope) I'm over the pity party I was throwing myself last week. I had a couple of dozen more sales on Day Robber after it released. But I'm not yet having much luck getting back into writing again. My muse is on vacation, I believe. Every time I opened Night Giver, determined to dig in and just write something, even if it was all crap that would later be scrapped, I'd get interrupted. And when I finally had time to get back in again, the procrastination had set in once more. And it'd take a while of mindless doom scrolling on my phone before I returned to the "okay, let's do this" frame of mind, only to get interrupted when I actually tried to do it, repeating the pattern in a wheel-spinning loop. So I've only gotten a few thousand words written in the last few weeks. But I guess that's better than nothing. The word count is at 114,000 right now.

What I've Been Reading: 

I started a story that I couldn't, for the life of me, get into. So I set that aside when North Country arrived on Tuesday. I'll finish that before the end of the day, so I'm calling it read this week. 

What I've Been Stacking on my Shelves:

North Country is also on this week's Stacking my Shelves list. I had it pre-ordered to arrive from the Zon last week. But they were running way behind, so when I received a newsletter email from the author on Saturday, saying there were still signed copies available at a list of certain stores, I canceled my Amazon order and got the signed copy instead. It arrived on Tuesday, and I started it immediately.  Then I got a different edition of Stormside that was for sale on TikTok because I liked its look better than the Target edition I had. My special edition of The Inadequate Heir arrived this week. Signed!  This is probably my favorite book by Danielle Jensen (yes, all because of Keris), and she's, like, my favorite author at the moment, so I'm happy to have that copy. And then I got the new edition of Torn, and ooh! I forgot to mention last week that I received Slaying the Shadow Prince, so I'll give it a little shout-out this week. Welcome to my collection, Shadow Prince. I ordered it back in September of 2025 from Aurora Crate. It was a happy surprise to finally see it hit my shelves.

And that was the ups and downs of my shelf-ish week. Hugs. Hope you have a great National Chocolate Pudding Day.