Hello!

Well November has come and gone and we’re now in Christmas Month (I work in retail so it is definitely a month long event lol). November was both a productive and unproductive month, as I read A LOT, but fell behind on reviews due to pain making it hard to focus – alas reviews don’t transport me to other worlds in the way books do, so I am now playing catch up so I will have a lot of Posts between now in Christmas.

This also had a knock-on effect on Nanowrimo and I came nowhere close to the 50K on the YA project I was supposed to be working on in between editing, on the other hand, editing is progressing – slower than I would like but progress is being made, and it will be off to an editor sooner rather than later, and I now have dozens of random scenes for the follow up book because I turned into a bit of a mood writer this month which is both good (because yay, words were written) but also a pain, as I can’t use them for a while.

That said, I had a fantastic time participating in Norsevember (even if nearly all my reviews were crammed into a single post right at the end), and while I fell off the wagon with the Sci-Fi Month challenge, I have started on Dune so I am not counting it as a complete loss.

I have also caught up with Critical Role, reread the Godblind trilogy (in Audiobook form, as I adore both the books and narrator), and I am currently working on a large A2 map for a friend. While in DnD, my Disaster Tiefling Niamh is currently stuck in frog-form courtesy of her Archfey Patron (to be remedied this weekend when she is going to try and escape) and no longer has any memories of her friends in the party (the cost of casting the Wish Spell via a magical flower to yeet a Kraken to save the party and the Water plane).

I love DnD XD.

Oh, and I also finally got confirmation that my university had fixed the issue with one of my modules and that I have (somehow) completed my Postgraduate Diploma in Coastal and Maritime Societies and Cultures – something which I am more relieved than excited about, but still a good thing in 2020.

November Wrap-Up

November Posts & Reviews:

• Norsevember Wrap-Up
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – The Failsafe Query (Sean Richardson #1) – Michael Jenkins
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – How Love Actually Ruined Christmas (or Colourful Narcotics) – Gary Raymond
• #Norsevember Tag
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – Always Adam – Mark Brumby
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – River Magic (Rituals of Rock Bay #1) – M.A. Phillips
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – Where is Tony Blunt? (Atrocities #2) – Joseph Mitcham
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – To Dream and Die as a Taniwha Girl (Yarnsworld #5) – Benedict Patrick
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – Six Feet Under (Terry Bell Mysteries #4) – Colin Garrow
• Book Review: These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1) – Chloe Gong
• Animanga: Norsevember Edition
• Book Review: The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn (Kingdom of Grit #1) – Tyler Whitesides
• Cover Reveal: The Echoed Realm (The Chaos Cycle #2) – A.J. Vrana
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – Rough Country – T.J. Brearton
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – Amethyst – Jesse Nolan Bailey
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – The Stairwell – Dean Bryant
• Animanga: 20 Sci-Fi Anime You Should Watch
• Blog Tour (Book Review) – Shadow Debt – William Ray
• Book Blitz: A Season of Whispers – Jackson Kuhl
• October Wrap-Up and What’s on for November
• Indie Sunday: Book Review – The Crown of Bones – Rosalyn Briar

Books Read:

Books Read but to be Reviewed in December:

What’s On – December Edition:

Upcoming Blog Tours/Blitzes:

• Tristian’s Folly (The Gifted and the Cursed #2) – Marcus Lee
• All Down the Line – Andrew Field
• Mongkok Station – Jake Needham
• Steel & Stone (The War of the North Saga #1) – Kate Haley
• Amari and the Night Brothers – B.B. Alston
• Deadline – Geoff Major
• The Boy who Walked Too Far – Dom Watson
• The Last Survivor – Tony Park
• The Lies of Our Fathers – Jonathan Mark
• Cooking with Cannibals – Rich Ledar (First Author Q & A!!)
• The Comfort of Distance – Ryburn Dobbs

December also marks my one-year anniversary of being a book blogger, so I will be doing something to celebrate when the day comes (I can’t believe it’s been a year already \o/… well almost), and I will be doing a Year Wrap-up as well as looking ahead to some of my most anticipated books for next year. Later in the month I will also be unveiling the new badge system that will replace the star-rating system that is currently in place.

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

Rowena