Hey! Last week was so crazy-busy (at the day job AND at home--getting ready for my kiddo's birthday party, where she invited all her friends to OUR house. Yes, picture fourteen teenagers in your living room, eating tacos, making homemade iced coffees, and watching Dirty Dancing together. It was quite an experience.) that I didn't get anything posted, sorry.
What I've Been Writing:
So I got some feedback on Impostors and Thieves that made me put aside Book 2 (because it'll change) and do an overhaul on Book 1 in the hopes of making it more marketable. I've been deleting chapters, adding new chapters, moving chapters from later in the story and others to earlier in the story, just all kinds of changes. I have almost all the major moving finished. Then, I'll go through it again (and probably again and again a few more times) to work on the sentence level next! It's at 146,000 words right now.
What I've Been Reading:
So in the past two weeks, I've read three books. I finished off the Meledition series by Danielle Jensen with Hidden Huntress and Warrior Witch. And then my sixteen-year-old (yes, she's sixteen now!) commanded me to start the Throne of Glass series. I really wasn't in the mood to commit myself to an eight-book series just now, but the girl spoke, so I obeyed. Which means I finished Book One, Throne of Glass, this week. And, oh yes, and the child also said I must read them in HER order, so I was not allowed to begin with The Assassin's Blade. But I've heard it can go either way, so that part really didn't matter to me. And it made my kid happy, so I'm happy!
What I've Been Putting on my Shelves:
My husband's Christmas present to me, The Throne of Glass series, came in last week, as did:
- To Sir Phillip, With Love
- The Things We Leave Unfinished (signed!)
- Half City (from Allurial Book Box Sub)
- Metal Slinger and
- Story of my Life.
Then this week, I received The Night Prince.
