2009 Books to be devoured...

I am highly anticipating a few books from emerging authors in 2009 (one from a published author) and I think this might be the first year I've anticipated books much like most, i.e. lay people, i.e. people who 'don't have time to read', anticipate movies...

How sad that must be, to not have time to read. Or worse, to not want to read, not ache to read. But then I confess, I have an unusually rich imaginary life...not something I readily admit at dinner parties, but am apparently happy to admit to the blog-o-sphere...but I digress...

So here it is, the 2009 MUSTS:

1. In the Forest of Hands and Feet, Carrie Ryan
2. The Demon's Lexicon, Sarah Rees Brennan (who is my new best friend, by the way, she just doesn't know it yet) (Into that world Inverted http://sarahtales.livejournal.com/)
3. Fragile Eternity, Melissa Marr
4. Faery Rebels - Spell Hunter, RJ Anderson
5. The Prophecy of Days, Christy Raedeke (this is actually a 2010 release, but this books sounds frickin' cool) (now in truth, this author could write crap and I would buy her books because she is a fellow Oregonian, but she doesn't write crap, she is funny and you should read her blog Juvenescence (http://raedeke.blogspot.com/) (not to put more pressure on you to be clever Christy!)

NaNoWriMo 2008......DONE!

Mission Accomplished.........hehe.....

I did it, finishing with the following stats.

11.30.08
NaNoWriMo 2008 Stats!!!

* No. of Dutch Bros Lattes? : 28 (I am officially sick of egg nog lattes)
* No of words? : 50,907
* Now what? I haven't touched it in a week. I'm taking a break to write something else, then I'll move on to editing!

Princesses are the new Vampires/Demons/Faeries/Wizards......

I am banking on this big time. Although it doesn't really matter to me, I would write about Princesses anyway because I *heart* them!

Cool Princess Books to read, and re-read:

1. Princess Bride, by William Goldman
2. Princess Academy, by by Shannon Hale
3. Any of the Philippa Gregory books on the Bolyn family.
4. Catherine Meyer Princess Books
5. Gail Carson Levine Books (including Ella Enchanted)
6. Sleeping Beauty, Grimm's version
7. Cinderella, Grimm's version
8. What am I missing.......I know there are more.....

Reviewer X

I found the coolest blog! It is a consolidation of writer's who blog + publishing info and commentary from the highly coveted Gen Y voice. If you are a YA writer, you must check them out!

Serial confessions of a writer.....Ch 1-8 of The Birthright.

I've done a bad, bad thing.....

Upon reflection, it appears that I've killed a lot of people.

It needed to be done, of course. There was really no way around it.

In posting Chapters 1-8, I'll have explicitly killed off 5 sub characters and an additional 6 implied characters.

Thing is, its only the beginning.......

NaNoWriMo 2008......Over half way there!

I haven't posted anything new because I've been too busy writing!! That is a good sign, but I'm writing a bunch of crap. I should be at 30k words by end of night tonight, and I'm wasting time writing on this bloody blog that no one reads.....PLUS, I totally got a fun new idea to write about and wanted SO BADLY to cheat on this manuscript.....

11.19.08
NaNoWriMo 2008 Stats!!!

* No. of Dutch Bros Lattes? : 18
* No of pages? : 165
* No of words? : 31,203
* No of times I thought this is a bad idea? : Every day this week......!

NaNoWriMo 08 Status Update.....

11.05.08
NaNoWriMo 2008 Stats!!!

* No. of Dutch Bros Lattes? : 7 (this number is about to skyrocket now that egg nog latte's are back!)
* No of pages? : 90
* No of words? : 16,000
* No of times I thought this is a bad idea? : I started to fall behind this week. Not technically, of course, but for me, I wasn't keeping up at the same rate. But I'm moving into the strech of week where I have more time to write so I'm pushing for 25K words by Wednesday!