The Sunday Post (23): November Edition

Today’s Sunday Post is coming at’cha on a Monday! It also covers the entire month of November… Whooohoo I’m a rebel. 🙂

Monthly News

Hello! I’m back! Or I should say, the blog is back to its normally scheduled programing after a semi-hiatis in November while I participated (and won!) National Novel Writing Month! I hope November treated you well. I can’t believe it’s already December. The whole idea of Christmas and the end of the year just seems cray cray to me right now.

In celebration of NaNoWriMo, A Book and a Latte had a month long author/writer “How I Write” feature. I’m honored that 19 authors/writers participated! Besides the feature, I let myself take off the month of November from posting reviews, memes (except for my WoW pick!), and blog tours so I could concentrate on writing my novel. Which I now have a first draft of… WHEW!

I did manage to sneak in one audiobook review and a couple of tour posts…  here’s a list of posts for November!

• Jennifer Echols: “How I Write” & Giveaway
• ROOTLESS Tour: Chris Howard: “How I Write” & Giveaway
• Audiobook Review: Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr
• Tour & Giveaway: Darkness Falls by Krystal Wade
• Katie McGarry: How I Write & Giveaway
• WoW Pick of the Week (11/7/12)
• Jenny Coon Peterson: How I Write & Giveaway
• Home Run Tour & Giveaway: Miranda Kenneally’s Top Ten Tips for New Writers
• Trish Doller: How I Write
• Lauren Oliver: How I Write 
• Sarah J. Maas: How I Write
• WoW Pick of the Week (11/14/12)
• Tamara Ireland Stone: How I Write
• Amalie Howard: How I Write & Giveaway
• Gretchen McNeil: How I Write
• Sarah Ockler: How I Write & Giveaway
• Gennifer Albin: How I Write
• 2012 YA Audiobook Challenge: November Linkup
• WoW Pick of the Week (11/21/12)
• Susan Adrian: How I Write
• Miranda Kenneally: How I Write
• Kat Zhang: How I Write
• Jennifer Castle: How I Write
• WoW Pick of the Week (11/28/12)
• Lisa T. Bergren: How I Write & Giveaway
• Gayle Forman: How I Write & Giveaway
• Courtney Koschel: How I Write

Book Haul

(aka Stacking the Shelves)

Here are the books I received for review, borrowed from the library, and bought in November.

• The Spindlers by Lauren Oliver – Audiobook (thank you HarperAudio!)
• Rootless by Chris Howard – Audiobook (thank you Scholastic Audio!)
• Skinny by Donna Cooner – Audiobook (thanks Scholastic Audio
• Pivot Point by Kasie West  (thank you HarperTeen!)
• The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd (thanks HarperTeen!)
• Hidden by Sophie Jordan – Audiobook (thanks Brilliance Audio)
• The Undeadly by Michele Vail – NetGalley
• Hysteria by Megan Miranda – NetGalley
• The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth LaBan – NetGalley
• Going Vintage by Lindsey Leavitt – NetGalley
• Waking up Married by Mira Lyn Kelly – NetGalley
• Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer – Audiobook
• Collide by Shelly Crane
• Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor
• The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay

Currently Reading

I’m so excited to be reading fun books again! I spent most of October and November reading writing craft books, and I missed reading soooo much. Days of Blood & Starlight was my light at the end of the tunnel, and I’m loving it so far! What are you reading?

Upcoming

Today, I posted JKSCommunications 2012 Holiday Giveaway Hop, they’re giving away 7 books as part of a Books for Teens Prize Pack! Tomorrow, I’m hosting Amy Lignor for her Gilded Wings Blog Tour. I’ll be posting a couple of reviews this week, and as always I’ll be posting my WoW pick of the week.

2012 YA Audiobook Challengers, I’ll be posting a year end audiobook giveaway soon! Be sure to link up your reviews, each one counts as an entry! If you missed out on the challenge this year, never fear, a sign up post for 2013 will be coming soon. Jessi from Otherwhere.Co is designing a button for it now (Thanks Jessi!). I hope you join us for the challenge next year!

Have a great week!