Embrace the Geek

Hello all!

Again, I have not died! Indeed, I have too much of a social life right now and all of my projects and my stack of reading material has grown dusty with neglect. Though I'm not sure if work can truly be considered a social life...but really I talk to people all day and am wiped out by the time I get home - much like having an overly active social life - so I call it even.

A lot has happened since the last time I wrote a blog post. Thistledown is published and I have sold a few copies [hooray! :)]. I've begun writing the sequel, Thistletorn. I read a few books - not as much as usual but still a few. I've even found someone absolutely amazing after all of the hooplah that came before. Strangely enough, we met on a geeky dating website called Soul Geek. And I have to say it defied all of the odds. All of them.

I managed to find the one flawless gem in the pile of very scary rubble. He lives 3k miles away, we've been visiting back and forth, it's been almost 6 months and we're still so lovey dovey it's probably illegal in some countries. It also goes to prove that if you embrace your inner geek, are honest with yourself about who you are and what you want, and generally focus on what makes you happy - the right person will appear who fits you and accepts you and loves you as you are. And thinks you're totally worth it.

Moving on! NaNoWriMo is just around the corner and I'm pretty sure I'm just going to work on Thistletorn for this. I'm already breaking the rules a bit by working on something that already exists but you know what? Don't care! It's just more of a motivator for me to get the sequel done and out! I've planned out the chapters, am currently writing chapter 3, have a whole host of new characters and a plot point that will occur later that will make you hate my guts. :D Yeee! I can't wait!

Anyway! Back to books! I've had some spurts with reading this year, surprisingly most of them now are NOT on my Nook - but instead are just old fashioned books. I read Diana Rowland's Touch of the Demon, Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues, & White Trash Zombie Apocalypse all in paperback and I breezed through them. It's like pulling teeth now reading from my Nook.

I guess what they say is true - once a bookworm, always a bookworm.

I think a lot of my lack of interest in reading this year stems from the fact that there's a combination in the market of too few interesting new books and too many authors I love pumping out best sellers. I've got too much to read in pretty much the same pool I've been reading from for the past 5 years. Plus I'm focusing a lot on my own book and trying to get THAT mess straight in my head without muddling it up with new inspirations that will lead to new stories and I will become a magpie and get distracted by the shiny new plot instead of finishing what I've got. If I'm honest with myself it's also because most of the time I had set aside for reading has been spent on the shiny new Man beast. [I shall refer to him from now on as the Man beast.]

Normally, I'd be all upset about that. My inner librarian shaking her fist in quiet indignation whispering vehemently "I need to read, damn you! SHHHHH!" Now? Now she's quietly biting her fist in glee as the sparkly romance unfolds in my life like a really good romance novel. Little traitor! The fact that he's a reader too has also gone a long way to placating her. Now if only I can get him to read some of the books I like and I can get into Clive Cussler, I think we'll be set.

Anyway!
I promise I will eventually begin posting reviews again...after all I'm going to be adding them to my GoodReads account! :) If you get a chance to read Thistledown, please write a review on there! I'd appreciate it greatly and with gusto!

Until then, be true to yourself, keep reading, and embrace the geek!