Catching up with competitions and good books
Whew! We just had a conversation with our landlord and confirmed that we can stay in our current house for the foreseeable future. Hooray for being settled in one place! And now it really is time for us to finally learn Welsh, if only to keep up with MrD.
The last month or so has been a bit of a whirlwind - first the Big Push to finish the first draft of the dragon novel, and then racing around to take care of all the Serious Business-y errands that I'd been putting off until then. So I only just realized that I've forgotten to talk here about some Kat giveaways that are going right now. (I always remember to tweet about them, but I know not everyone is as addicted to Twitter as I am.)
First of all, Sabrina at YA Bliss is giving away an ARC of Kat, Incorrigible this month on her blog as part of her YA Historical Fiction Challenge. The giveaway is open to anyone in the world who follows the guidelines set out in the competition entry.
Secondly (and at least I'm only a day late announcing this one!), if you live in the UK (or have a helpful friend with a UK address who's willing to post your winnings to you), you can enter to win a published copy of A Most Improper Magick (the UK edition of Kat Book 1) on the Fluttering Butterflies blog.
Right, I'm pretty sure that's it. But if you guys have spotted any others I don't know about, please let me know and I'll boost the signal here!
In the meantime, I'm reading Aliette de Bodard's Harbinger of the Storm, which is dark and lush and even better than the first novel in her Aztec fantasy/mystery series for adults, Servant of the Underworld. If you love adult historical fantasies OR adult historical mysteries, you really, really ought to check this series out.
And I spent yesterday devouring Jennifer Echols's Going Too Far, a novel for older teens which turned out to be my favorite romance novel (for any age) that I've read in a long time. I absolutely loved the fact that the serious (and very real) baggage that both the heroine and hero were dealing with never, ever stopped the book from also being sharp and very, very funny. I'd read the opening pages a couple years ago and thought, Oh, no, too much angst for me right now, but that impression turned out to be completely wrong. I laughed and had so much fun through the whole novel, despite also caring deeply for the characters and their issues.
What about you guys? What books have you been enjoying lately?
(I also read and totally adored Jo Walton's Among Others, but I think I'm going to wait and devote a whole blog entry to that one sometime.)
The last month or so has been a bit of a whirlwind - first the Big Push to finish the first draft of the dragon novel, and then racing around to take care of all the Serious Business-y errands that I'd been putting off until then. So I only just realized that I've forgotten to talk here about some Kat giveaways that are going right now. (I always remember to tweet about them, but I know not everyone is as addicted to Twitter as I am.)
First of all, Sabrina at YA Bliss is giving away an ARC of Kat, Incorrigible this month on her blog as part of her YA Historical Fiction Challenge. The giveaway is open to anyone in the world who follows the guidelines set out in the competition entry.
Secondly (and at least I'm only a day late announcing this one!), if you live in the UK (or have a helpful friend with a UK address who's willing to post your winnings to you), you can enter to win a published copy of A Most Improper Magick (the UK edition of Kat Book 1) on the Fluttering Butterflies blog.
Right, I'm pretty sure that's it. But if you guys have spotted any others I don't know about, please let me know and I'll boost the signal here!
In the meantime, I'm reading Aliette de Bodard's Harbinger of the Storm, which is dark and lush and even better than the first novel in her Aztec fantasy/mystery series for adults, Servant of the Underworld. If you love adult historical fantasies OR adult historical mysteries, you really, really ought to check this series out.
And I spent yesterday devouring Jennifer Echols's Going Too Far, a novel for older teens which turned out to be my favorite romance novel (for any age) that I've read in a long time. I absolutely loved the fact that the serious (and very real) baggage that both the heroine and hero were dealing with never, ever stopped the book from also being sharp and very, very funny. I'd read the opening pages a couple years ago and thought, Oh, no, too much angst for me right now, but that impression turned out to be completely wrong. I laughed and had so much fun through the whole novel, despite also caring deeply for the characters and their issues.
What about you guys? What books have you been enjoying lately?
(I also read and totally adored Jo Walton's Among Others, but I think I'm going to wait and devote a whole blog entry to that one sometime.)