June 2019 Monthly Wrap-Up

I almost forgot to write this post. How did I manage that? Anyway, it’s time for the June 2019 monthly wrap-up. Maybe I should put this on my blog schedule next time so I don’t forget.

Books Read:

I read 13 books this month. One of them was a re-read.

• The Evil Queen – Gena Showalter
• A Court of Mist and Fury – Sarah J. Maas
• The Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon
• Spin the Dawn – Elizabeth Lim
• Killing Patton – Bill O’Reilly
• A Tyranny of Petticoats – Various
• Wicked Fox – Kat Cho
• A Very Large Expanse of Sea – Tahereh Mafi
• The Storm Crow – Kalyn Josephson
• City of Bones – Cassandra Clare (reread)
• On the Come Up – Angie Thomas
• Dragonslayer – Duncan M. Hamilton
• Obsidian – Jennifer L Armentrout

Blog Stats:

• Twitter: 2074 followers. If it’s not going down, it’s good, right?
• Blog visits are about the same. But I get to read a lot of awesome ARCs, so I guess that’s enough?

Writing:

As of June 1st, I get to write full time! Yay! You may have noticed that I read quite a few books this month. Another benefit to not working for someone else.

The first 7 chapters of The Brightness of Shadow are ready for beta reading. I’m actually happy with them. I’ve been taking a class on Audible called Writing Great Fiction that’s really helping. I even have a vision for changing the first scene of Saving Adelinetta, which is a story I haven’t touched since January. I haven’t been happy with it, but I think I can make it better.

I started a fanfic called The Rift in June, which is another fanfic that takes place right between the events of Wildcard and Legend. I don’t know if anybody will ever be interested in reading it, because all the characters are original characters except for Asher Wing from Warcross (and he’s an old man with a minor role in the story) and the evil elector from Legend (he’s a friend of one of the main characters). I’m pretty much writing this story for myself though, because I wanted to tell the story of a) why Daniel Wing from Legend‘s family was dirt poor even though his ancestor was this big-shot Warcross player and b) why June was named June even though her birthday was July 12th.

I did the Attic Notebook almost every day. Most of my #vss365 posts are inspired by what I write there. I use the #vss365 prompt as my Attic Notebook prompt, and on Tuesdays I combine that with the prompt from this daily writer’s calendar I have.

I’m working on two short stories for a couple of contests I want to enter.

Life:

We had a wonderful day in mid-June and right afterwards, we had to go to the hospital again. It won’t take us long for us to run through our family’s yearly maximum out-of-pocket on this new insurance. Which started at the beginning of this month with dh’s new job.

My dh recently saved his company $200,000 a year. So he’s doing well there.

That’s pretty much all that happened. It was mostly a good month.