Farewell February// Birthday Book Haul

Spring is in the air. Or at least, it was earlier this month. It's a little cold right now, but at least the snow has been coming out more and the birds are returning. And now February is at a close, and technically it's March now, but I couldn't leave February without saying farewell.

Life

I turned nineteen which was... scary. I still think of myself as a kid even though I'm becoming a full fledged and responsible adult. Other than that, there isn't much to comment on. I worked, I drew a lot, and stayed up late way too often. My life is boring. Move along.

Blogging

So as many of you already know, almost the entirety of my blogging last month has been dedicated to fantasy. I've been trying out blogging on Wednesdays, and I think that worked out well. I've had every Wednesday this month off so I'm going to keep with the Wednesday blogging schedule. Also, I realized that I never really did anything to celebrate my starting my blog so I'm doing that now by doing a question and answer post. It will be at the beginning to April. You will be able to leave your questions in the comments of any blog post throughout the month of March.

Reading

I only read five books this month. They were the four books in the Black Mage series. It was so good, I'd already read First Year and Apprentice before but I finally finished the series. And wow, was it painful in the end.

And Seafire. Which I hated.



Writing

So, my writing this month has had its highs and lows. I realized that I wouldn't be able to publish A Winter Dark and Deadly in the amount of time that I had been hoping, which was disappointing of course, but I just want to thank you all for your support. It means so much to me. I also sent Of Gold and Iron to a publisher which was both terrifying and exciting. I also wrote a piece of flash fiction that was just under three thousand words, for this anthology contest. It's called A Chance at Death and honestly I wasn't expecting it to be quite as emotional as it was. I even drew a piece of art that I submitted with it. Hopefully I'll hear back in a few months with good news about that.

Finally, I didn't get much actual writing done outside of editing. I've been having a bit of a creative rut with my written projects. Therefore, I'm setting Here is There down for a little while and starting a new (or possibly two) new projects to try to pull myself out of that. I'm super excited about these new projects and maybe I'll announce them next Wednesday to give myself time to make certain that these are in fact the stories that I will be starting. Please keep in mind that editing my sequels and polishing Of Gold and Iron up for publication are still my main priorities, these are just side projects so that I don't forget how to write.

Birthday Books

But now, enough of the updates, I promised a birthday book haul and so a birthday book haul you will get. I was busy with February is Fantasy month so I didn't really have much of an opportunity to do this till now. I got a lot of books for my birthday and I'm super excited about all of them even if my bookshelf no longer has any space at all. So without further ado, here are the newest arrivals to my book family.

From my grandparents

Never even heard of this book before my birthday

Got first book at library sale

And that's it. A pretty good birthday book haul if I do say so myself. Ignore my bookshelf crying in the background.

Now it's your turn. How was your February? Have you read any of the books that I got for my birthday? What do you think of my idea to start a new project or two? Comment below!