Hello!

So October has come and gone, in a somewhat different way than I had planned as I ended up spending two weeks in quarantine after coming into contact with colleagues who tested positive for covid. I didn’t have it or at least had no symptoms, I was just very bored for two weeks – and read a lot more because of it. I also had my birthday and was blessed with some lovely books and Final Fantasy VII remake which I have wanted for ages, and is currently driving me up the wall as I am stuck on a battle.

(Birthday books)

October also saw a little bit of rebranding, because as my blog nears it’s first birthday I decided a revamp was needed. So I changed up the background and created a new banner:

I also decided that come the New Year, I will be doing away with the star-rating system (apart from on netgalley and goodreads etc where it is required) and I will be replacing it with badges. I am still working on the design and details of these, so watch this space, but they are coming.

October Wrap-Up:

October Posts & Reviews:

• Book Review: The Ikessar Falcon (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen #2) – K. S. VIlloso
• Animanga: Book Review – The Witch and the Beast 1 – Kousuke Satake
• Mini Reviews
• Book Blitz: The Crown of Bones – Rosalyn Briar
• Book Review: Northern Wrath (The Hanged God Trilogy #1) – Thilde Kold Holdt
• Cover Reveal: The Archive (The Maer Cycle #2) – Dan Fitzgerald
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – The Ancestor – Lee Matthew Goldberg
• Sci-Fi Month TBR
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – A Ritual of Bone (The Dead Sagas #1) – Lee C. Conley
• Book Review: The Stone Knife (The Songs of the Drowned #1) – Anna Stephens
• Animanga: Book Review – Blue Period Vol.1 – Tsubasa Yamaguichi
• Book Review: Map’s Edge (The Tethered Citadel #1) – David Hair
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – The Speed of Life – James Victor Jordan
• Indie Sunday: ABC of Authors
• Animanga: Top 10 Horror Anime
• Book Review: The Bell in the Lake (The Sister Bells #1) – Lars Mytting
• Cover Reveal: Find Your Harpy Place – D. H. Willison
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – Children (The Ten Worlds #1) – Bjørn Larssen
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – A Wizard’s Forge (The Woern Saga #1) – A.M. Justice
• It’s Halloween! Okay, it’s October…

Books Read:

What’s On – November Edition:

November is a very packed month. I am participating in #Norsevember organised by Alex at Spells and Spaceships and you can check out my TBR for that event (here). I’m also doing Sci-Fi month as part of my goal to read more sci-fi this year, and you can check out my TBR for that challenge (here).

I am also participating in a bunch of tours, and have some other reviews lined up for across the month so there will be a post most days.

Upcoming Blog Tours/Blitzes:

• A Season of Whispers – Jackson Kuhl
• Shadow Debt – William Ray
• The Stairwell – Dean Bryant
• Amethyst – Jesse Nolan Bailey
• Rough Country – T. J. Brearton
• Six Feet Under – Colin Garrow
• To Dream and Die as a Taniwha – Benedict Patrick
• Tony Blunt – Joseph Mitcham
• River Magic – M. A. Phillips
• Always Adam – Mark Brumby
• Love Actually Ruined Christmas (or Colourful Narcotics) – Gary Raymond
• Failsafe Query – Michael Jenkins

It’s also Nanowrimo time, and while I am not doing it as strictly as I have in previous years, I am working on two seperate projects. One is the first draft for a YA steampunk fantasy whose working title is ‘The Last Keymaker’ and was inspired by a comment at a writer’s panel at MCM Comic Con last year. The other project a novella – working title (and currently under revision) ‘The Ravyn’s Words’ which is part of a larger project:

With the novella I am at the dreaded point of editing, which I dislike, more because I tend to end up putting in more mistakes as I work. However, this is my second pass, tightening parts up etc before it will be going off to an editor who will hopefully catch all my dyslexic mistakes that I will inevitably miss or add in while editing.

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What are you planning on reading in November? Are you taking part in any reading challenges? Are you doing Nanowrimo? Let me know, and always feel free to talk books with me.

Rowena