Last year I posted 18 stories totaling 29,285 words, which is approximately half of the previous year’s output in words, and the story count is only as high as it is because drabbles. I suspect this is because I moved to a new house (which we had built) in April, and the massive timesink that is preparing to move, moving, unpacking, and figuring ( Read more... )

What I've recently finished reading:

Shorefall, the sequel to Foundryside, by Robert Jackson Bennett, which I read as e-ARC through NetGalley - it's going to be published late April. I am going to have to take a while to process this one, and also, I think I'm supposed to post my review closer to the publication time, so I might re-read ( Read more... )

Last year I posted 26 stories totaling 58091 words, which is exactly the same number of stories I posted in 2017 but about 3500 more words. Since 2017 represented an increase in story count and word count over the previous year, holding steady is fine by me. Depending on how you count fairy tales, a tiny crossover element, past works, and if the ( Read more... )

2018 in books! (2017, 2016)

Here is a pretty picture of all the covers, plus a few meaningless statistics, courtesy of Goodreads. You can click on any of these to see my review.

How many books read in 2018?48 started; 3 abandoned, 43 read, 2 still in progress. This is not as many finished as last year, nor even as many as started. I think I'm ( Read more... )

Better late etc. etc! Last year, I posted 26 stories totaling 54,436 words, which is an increase over 2016 in both numbers. Also, all the words I posted in 2017 were actually written that year, as opposed to what happened in both 2016 and 2015, when the bulk of the wordcount was due to a story posted in that year, but largely written before then ( Read more... )

What I've recently finished reading:

Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore, which I had B. return to the library when I unexpectedly had to fly back to help out with my parents. I took it out from the library again and finished it last night. Jane, orphaned umbrella artist at a loss for what to do with her life after the death of her beloved Aunt ( Read more... )

What I've recently finished reading: Leviathan Wakes by "James S.A. Corey" (actually a pair of co-writers), which is classic space opera with a large dollop of horror. What I liked most about it was that in this future the racist and xenophobe lines are drawn not by skin color, but by planet/station of origin, and the reminder that human beings ( Read more... )

I posted eleven stories last year totaling 49,453 words, though the single longest story, which accounts for most of that wordage, was drafted in 2015, with only post-beta changes made last year. (This compares to twenty stories in 2015, 35,352 words, and about 40% of that wordage was a single story that was mostly written over the previous six ( Read more... )

I posted twenty stories last year totaling 35,352 words, though the single longest story, which accounts for about 38% of the total wordage, was actually mostly written over the previous six years. Eighteen fandoms are represented, including three crossovers; the fandom I wrote the most stories in was, as last year, Raven Cycle, but in terms of ( Read more... )

Two years ago, after a two-year fannish slump, I wrote over 100K words, and figured I was back in fandom for good. That didn't quite happen, as unhappy conflicts with others led to my mostly abandoning my new fandom in 2013 and writing pretty much nothing that year other than for Yuletide. But that Yuletide was a good one - that's when I got into ( Read more... )