May is gone, and if you have any idea where it is, please let me know. 😉 Happy June, by the way!
Anyway, here’s a quick update on my full plate last month. 😉
Pleasure read:
The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre (three stars)
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (five stars, read-aloud by my mom)
When You Reach Me (four stars ❤ ❤ )
A Home in Drayton Valley (four stars)
Answered:
Mostly texts and emails
Beta-reader comments! ❤
Interview questions (I'll let you know when that's live…)
Googled:
How long it takes to read a novel (three hours)
The Red Sea Diving Resort ❤
Most common English last names
Ashkenazi Jews and autoimmune disorders 😦
Battery life car for my computer
MBTI chart for Marvel characters
Mission: Impossible quote (for a birthday card 😀)
Types of high heels
Male names that mean faithful to God
Names of clothes and hairstyles (sometimes an author’s vocabulary needs help…)
Red nose day
Dispositions
Wrote:
A synopsis for “Kiera” (finally!!) 😉
Two newsletters this month
Google forms for promotional signups 😉
Emails! (Releasing a book is 75% emails, 20% editing, and 40% snacks)
Blog posts (the top five being Behold! A Cover!, In Book News…, Plate Update: Rereads, Strawberries, and Drafts, When the Stories Won’t Stay Away, and Interview of Livy Jarmusch)
Meeting minutes for our pro-life club 😉
Book reviews, though I’m still behind XD
Edited:
“Kiera”–twice, twenty times, forever, yeah 😀
“Kiera” some more
Miscellaneoused:
Watched the world’s best version of Robin Hood with Anna
Bought more books (Gulp. 😀 )
Celebrated my brother’s birthday with laser tag 😉
Visited with my older sister and her children
Switched to a gluten-free, soy-free diet and discovered some super cool new foods to make!
Celebrated the end of sewing group for the summer
Discovered the world’s best gluten-free M&M’s
I also finished piecing my baby quilt and bought backing, batting, and binding for it. 😉 There have also been some sweet family times including my brother’s birthday celebration, an epic Monopoly game, and listening to a new sermon series in the evenings.
This next month, I’m looking forward to choosing my summer reading, releasing “Kiera”, and preparing for another Generation Rising booth at the homeschool convention. Also, finishing that baby quilt! 😀
How was your May? What are you looking forward to this month?
Once Upon An Ordinary 
I love your list especially what you Googled
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Ha, ha! Thanks! 😀 Between being an author and my own goofy research brain, I look up some weird things. 😛
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Your May sounded fun! Yes, it definitely went really fast! As for things coming up, tomorrow my grandparents are coming (they live out of state) and after that we’re going camping. 😀
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It was!
Aw, that’s so fun! Enjoy camping!!
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Yay!!! Kiera!!
I loved the Vanderbeekers of 141st Street and the Last Archer! And those M&M’s are.the.best. I’m looking forward to the Generation Rising Booth at the convention. 🙂
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YES!!
Aw, yeah. Those two have been fun to share all around the house. YUM. 😀 Me too. 😉
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I love that version of Robin Hood! I’ve got one that is my absolute favorite (The Challenge for Robin Hood) but that one is a close second!
How do you like laser tag? I love it. All us siblings will go do it every couple of months. =D
I’m looking forward to finally doing another round of editing on my novel. I’ve been working on it for a year and a half now, but I just gave it a long break and I’m ready to dive back in! =D
-Mikayla-
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Ooo, I need to look that one up. (*has a “slight” Robin Hood obsession*)
LOVE IT! Oh, that’s really fun. 😀
Woohoo! It’s going to be great. 😉
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Yeah, Sarah went through an extreme Robin Hood phase and we all kind of jumped on ship. ;D
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Wow. So fun! 😀
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I love that 40% books comment. Isn’t it true though? One needs brain food to power the thinking faculties!
Would you be interested in joining the Louisa May Alcott reading challenge in June? (+ there’s a giveaway!) Details are on my blog.
Tarissa
http://inthebookcase.blogspot.com
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Definitely! I’m a regular hummingbird when I’m writing/editing.
Oh, I’d love to, but my June is…crazy, to put it mildly. Thanks so much for inviting me, though!
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Sounds like you had a great month! My May was good, wonderful, and hard all at the same time. 🙂 Growing up and having siblings get engaged is fun, but also challenging cause it kinda means losing them for a while. In May I went on vacation and caught up with some reading while I was gone. 😉
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I understand. 😀 I’ve been going through that in some ways too myself. 😉
Ooo, fun!!! What did you read? (Or I should probably just wait for a blog post about that…? :D)
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Haha, I read some mindless books – just for relaxation, plus some great books like “Everybody Always” by Bob Goff. #sogood
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That’s awesome. 😀
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I did skim this post when you first posted it. I promise I did. (I actually usually skim them or sometimes actually read them! when they come in my inbox.) So I guess I really am caught up, but not on commenting. 😛 So I’m just going to pretend I am caught up and leave it at that. I feel like I’m behind on everything! Especially reading and commenting on blogs. 😉
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Ha, ha! No worries. I feel behind on things too. 😉
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Can we just declare this to be “behind week”? Or “month”? 😉
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Or year even? 😀
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Ha! Yeah! 😛
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