Book Birthdapalooza

[alanajoli]

Nearly all of my B&N preorders have shipped and should be arriving on my porch in the next few days. So I'd like to take this moment to wish a happy Book Birthday (in some cases, belated from earlier this week) to:

• frost_light's One Foot in the Grave,
• melissa_writing's Ink Exchange, and
• shanna_s's Don't Hex with Texas

Welcome to the world, books!

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Quick notes on why I've gone missing lately (and a further demonstration that I am actually learning html coding--the more that I use it, I figure the less I'll have to look it up every time I want to bullet a list). Since last Friday I:

• Read the first chapter of The Lightning Thief aloud at a storyreading night.
• Ran three Xen'drik Expeditions D&D games.
• Committed my very first TPK as a DM.
• Finished going over the edits for the d20 Steampunk Musha Player's Guide.
• Signed a copy of Into the Reach for a facebook friend who managed to find one used and mailed it to me.
• Wrote a review for Flames Rising.
• Wrote a biographical essay about Marc Aronson (which was incredibly fun--he's a great representative for nonfiction for younger readers, and when John Scieszka's term as National Ambassador for Children's Literature ends, Aronson should be a serious candidate).
• Read Nalini Singh's award winning paranormal romance Caressed by Ice, which I ended up very much enjoying, despite its having two themes that normally make me put a book down (a serial killer/stalker as a major threat and one of the characters having been raped--the former which really doesn't ever sit well with me, but worked out, and the latter of which Singh handled in such a way that the healing process was compelling rather than distressing).
• Watched The Sting with my husband.

Huh, it felt like so much more before I wrote the list. At any rate, it's been very busy around here, and I'm trying to catch up on my blog reading while not falling behind on my schedule of assignments. We'll see how that goes.