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Books Read in March

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    March was a VERY busy month, both on a personal and professional level.   For Twisted Dreams Press: We are in the final stretch of wrapping up the Week of Terrors anthology series. The books filled up fast as we got closer to reaching the end! Now only the Saturday book is left, with just four spots left! And speaking of anthologies, I got an idea for another one, which I hope to put out a call for after we finish reading stories for Slasher Saturday. Since my business partner has been in the hospital since December and we are NOT discussing anything related to the press while she is there, I have yet to receive a response to the email I sent to her about this new anthology idea. (She is not reading emails sent to her press email address until she returns to work.) So I can’t really say too much about it until I hear from her.   I received the usual round of rejections on poems and short stories submitted this month, but I also had quite a bit of accept...
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Books Read in February

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  A writing gig I had that ended last month may have come to an end, but I was still very busy during the month of February. Not only was it a busy month for me, but it was also certainly a month of ups and downs.   Fortunately, I kept up with writing in my journal every day this month. This actually helped me when I was dealing with a lack of motivation to write; writing a whole page in my journal really served as a reminder that I can still write no matter what I was dealing with!   I did deal with quite a few things this month that I would rather not talk about here (that’s what my journal is for!), but fortunately nothing that was life-shattering. I just kept putting one foot in front of the other and did the things that I had to do.   We did have my son’s dog’s one-year deathversary this month. And that was really hard. We miss him SO MUCH. I’m still so heartbroken over this loss.     That is our last family picture with him. I was to...
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Books Read in January

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    The month of January saw my book reviewing gig come to an end. I am grateful that I had the opportunity to work this gig. It really challenged me as a reader! I also learned a lot as a book reviewer and got to enjoy spending so much time reading books. Or, should I say, getting paid to read books.   This particular gig is seasonal, so I will be working it again when it rolls around later in the year.   However, I’m happy that I was able to push myself to read as many as four books in one week. That’s pretty awesome! What isn’t so awesome, however, was falling behind on some other things because of that challenge (I’m looking at you, unfinished novel-in-progress). But I am working on getting caught up on those things.   In fact, I plan to spend the day tomorrow wrapping up writing my short story and sending it off for edits!   January saw the end of some other things too. I finished editing stories for an anthology, finished revising a ...
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