February 2019 Monthly Wrap-Up

February was a short month, and so not quite as much happened this month, but we’ll see what I did do:

Books Read:

After such an amazing reading month in January, February was kind of “meh” for me. There were a few bright spots but a few that were just okay (that was almost half of them). I’ve read 7 1/2 books this month (so far). I fully expect to finish reading Four Dead Queens today, so I’m putting it here, even though I’m not 100% done.

• Hundreds – Pepper Winters
• Second Star – J.M. Sullivan
• Tower of Dawn – Sarah J. Maas
• The Iliad (graphic novel) – Gareth Hinds
• Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo
• The Waking Forest – Alyssa Wees
• The Dysasters – P.C. and Kristin Cast
• Four Dead Queens – Astrid Scholte

Blog Stats:

• Twitter has been really weird this month. I’ve been hovering around 1,932 followers for weeks now. I’ll get followers and lose them. Don’t know why.
• Blog users have been fairly steady.

Writing:

I finished the first round of editing on The Brightness of Shadow this month. It’s going slower than I’d like it to, but even though I’d like to query early summer, there isn’t a deadline or anything. I don’t want to send this thing out until it’s ready. I read the first page to my critique group and they liked it, and then I went and changed a few things and made it better… so I think the first page would be ready to go out, but there’s still a lot of work to do on the remaining ~300 pages.

Life:

My daughter is back from the hospital, so I don’t have to spend every Sunday and Tuesday afternoon visiting her. Since I can see her every day now.

I’m teaching Spanish this semester, and I’m taking a writing class to work on TBoS. So life is teaching, working, getting ready to teach, writing, tweeting. Hope to get our house refinanced soon so I can work at home again.

We got our taxes done! Last year I owed about three months of our salary and we had to set up a payment plan (a job loss caused us to make less money at the end of the year than at the beginning). This year, we got a huge refund, and that basically is going to pay for everything we owe the IRS. So that will be paid off. Which is good, I’d rather owe money to Vinny who might break my legs or not paying him.

So that’s it! Hopefully March will be good!