A Cavalcade of BUSY
This picture has nothing to do with this entry. I am just vain. And pale.
So! Good things are happening! Query-related things! There was a time when I would be gushing all over the internet about it, but right now I feel like biting my tongue and biding my time. After all, there’s no real news yet. And don’t worry–I’ll let you know when there is!
My schedule for the next month looks approximately like this:
- Attend one of my college BFFs “Beerlympics”/birthday bashes.
- Visit in-laws.
- Be visited by in-laws.
- Finish/edit/format short story for BEA giveaway.
- Attend BEA.
- Visit New Paltz and find a place to live.
- Complete about 15 hours of training at work.
- Work something like 10 shifts.
- MOVE.
- Continue to read and review 1.5 books a week, to reach my year’s goal of 60 books. Because, why not arbitrary goals?!
- Do that writing-thing.
- Stay awesome.
SO. In light of all that, through June my blogging my be . . . irregular. I’m not going to say this is a leave of absence or anything like that (after all, I have a conference to chat about, and reviews to write). Just that my usual pace of 2-3 posts a week might not quite be feasible unless I have pharmaceutical help or want to risk having my head explode. Or both!
(Don’t do drugs, kids.)
In the meantime, Gentle Reader, you should stop by the following blogs. They have all far smarter things to say than I do lately:
Phoebe
Phoebe is a 20-something writer who lives in New York State with her husband and cat. She is a dork, not a geek or a nerd.
Her debut novel, Starglass, will be released from Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers in Summer 2013.
6 comments
Best of luck with your query business! Also, thanks for the shout-out
I try to be smart, I do.
You do a great job of it.
I hope you get some great news soon, but in the meantime, it sounds like you have many things keeping you occupied!
Thanks, Sarah!
I couldn't finish Divergent. (I noticed you didn't really recommend it either…) It's therapeutic to know I'm not the only one who wasn't crazy about it. I gave it many chances. At first I was all "This is a slow Ender's Game!" Emphasis on Ender's Game. Then the emphasis was on slow. And yeah, I found the whole faction thing kind of… unrealistic. Like she thought factions would be cool and then made up a reason for their existence. Kind of backwards-ish. And then the obvious plot holes. Like how she discovers her mother was Dauntless. Really? She didn't know this before? She had never wondered what her mother was, or asked her, and this just hits her out of nowhere? In a world where people can switch factions, wouldn't that be the first thing you think of when you interact with people? Not to nitpick — just one of many "ummm" moments. The world never felt real.
Also I hate how Tris never realized that Four liked her. It's like she considered everything but that — absurd, absurd things, but never something so "absurd" as him liking her? *eye roll*
Yeah, I think Roth's writing is really promising, but the whole thing just didn't cohere like I'd hoped it would.