The State of the Swankivy - August 2 - 8
The week in review:
Books Read:
Read and reviewed (click to read the review): Field of Blood by Denise Mina. Three stars.
Currently reading: Captain Underpants #10 by Dav Pilkey.
Songs Sung:
Evermore: "Light Surrounding You."
Videos Made:
None, but here's the Pitch Wars mentor video I was in:
Pictures Taken:
Me in bed reading eating Pop Rocks. I know, I'm ridiculous.
Stuff Drawn:
Negative One comic:
#0482: ivy #154: don't like the words
Written this week:
Writing site:
Writing blog:
- Pitch Wars has begun! Well, the preliminary stuff, anyway. Mentors have posted their wish lists. I'm on the blog hop. If you're an author with a completed manuscript and you're ready to query or actively looking for an agent, ENTER ENTER ENTER! (But first, this week, choose the best four mentors for you!)
- Did some editing on my new short story and finally decided it's more or less done. Also I'm currently calling it "That Story about Fortune Cookie Girl." Charming, eh? I submitted it somewhere on Sunday, to a magazine that not only takes stories this long BUT likes stuff that criticizes tropes and rises above genre. Well, maybe they'll like it.
- I posted a ton of new reviews this week on Goodreads and had a ball because, well, I was reviewing books I read more than ten years ago and I got to the part where I got to review every Animorphs book. Did 'em all in two days. :)
- I wrote a few pieces/answered a few sets of questions for upcoming pieces that will be featured around my book release. If anyone reading this wants to do a piece about my asexuality book on a blog somewhere around the first week of September, tell me!
- Redecorated my apartment for Lughasadh this week, finally. (I was late.) Now my apartment looks appropriately late-summery.
- I ate at New York's Best Pizza with Jeaux this week. We went to his house to watch America's Got Talent and listen to Night Vale.
- I was in one of the "coffee break" videos for Pitch Wars. We're cute.
- YouTube subscribers: 3,675 for swankivy (31 new this week), 370 for JulieSondra (3 new). Twitter followers: 534 for swankivy (2 new), 560 for JulieSondra (69 new--yeah, it's pretty much all Pitch Wars). Facebook: 262 friends (no change) and 129 followers (1 new) for swankivy, 385 likes for JulieSondra (3 new), 48 likes for Negative One (no change), 77 likes for So You Write (3 new). Tumblr followers: 1,451 (5 new).
Books Read:
Read and reviewed (click to read the review): Field of Blood by Denise Mina. Three stars.
Currently reading: Captain Underpants #10 by Dav Pilkey.
Songs Sung:
Evermore: "Light Surrounding You."
Videos Made:
None, but here's the Pitch Wars mentor video I was in:
Click to viewPictures Taken:
Me in bed reading eating Pop Rocks. I know, I'm ridiculous.
Stuff Drawn:
Negative One comic:
#0482: ivy #154: don't like the words
Written this week:
Writing site:
Writing blog:
- 30-Week Writing Survey: Week 18: Favorite Antagonist
- What kind of mentor?
- What if you're not "almost there"?
- YouTube conversation with tkristabelle (original post)
- qualities i look for in a man (reblog comment)
- You can buy your book in a Dutch shop (ask response)
- spellcheck (reblogging fanart of my original post)