July Goals

I feel like June was an exercise in how many different directions I could be pulled at once.  There was the Savvy challenge, the Book Addicts BARR event, I had classes and stuff and this and that and — Oh my God, I think I’m going to rip my hair out!  So while I didn’t accomplish as much as I wanted to, the big things did get done.

June Goals!

• Revise Decoy
• Submit Rescue Me
• Write my superhero story
• Work on my alias

What I did…

• I didn’t revise Decoy.  That was sad news to me, but it was more important to finish I Spy You.
• I finished I Spy You!  This was the short story that wasn’t happy being short.  It’s between a novella and a novel right now.  I plan on adding in to the beginning and a subplot.  I’m super excited about this story!
• I did not write the superhero story and I have ultimately decided to not write it.
• My alias is established and her own person.

For me getting I Spy You finished and doing the submissions was a big deal.  Those got done – and I’m happy.

This next month will be a lot of getting ready to go to Paris and making a deal on a house so a lot of my time will be sucked up by those two activities.  What time is left over I really want to spend working on one focal project.

July Goals!

• Revise on Casual Love
• Plot the Urban Fantasy idea
• Revise some of Decoy

So my focus is Casual Love.  If I can get to Decoy I will but the focus is all about the Formerly Fat Club girls!  I want to rewrite the beginning and possibly get some feedback on the overall plot.  It’s a contemporary, but there aren’t any stalker boyfriends, no criminals, nothing huge as far as the plot except a ‘real life’ love story kind of situation.  I was very excited about it when I wrote it but now I’m worried that there’s not enough conflict.  So!  I need to read the manuscript and figure out if I like it as is or if there needs to be another story as well.  Wish me luck!

What are you working on this month?

#ROW80 Check In

I haven’t done a proper accounting of what I’ve been doing as far as my ROW 80 goals.  Though I’ve been working on them, everything has been overtaken with my Savvy participation.  It’s worked because the goals have matched up, but I haven’t been focused on this.  There’s two weeks to go, so here’s hoping I can do a good showing of myself over the next two weeks.

ROW 80 Goals…

1. Finish Casual Love

The story is done.  This week I’m going to do a read through and begin writing the new beginning.  I’m disappointed that I need a new beginning, but it will be stronger if I start the real tension earlier in the story.

2. Finish at least two short stories.

I’ve finished two: Rescue Me and Decoy.  I’m working on a third with a ridiculous name because I couldn’t come up with something that worked.  Names are difficult for me.  *sigh*  I’m hoping to finish it by the end of ROW.  I’m well into the story, but thanks to June and the boot camp I’m a little burned out on solid write, write, write!

3. Do writerly things every day.

With a few exceptions, I’ve written almost every day of the last three months.  That’s a major success I think.  Building that daily habit is important.  My day doesn’t feel complete unless I have written something.

4. Juggle revisions and writing.

This has been fairly successful.  I do better by large when I can focus on revisions or writing, but I can do both.  Right now I’m doing deep edits on Decoy while polishing Rescue Me and making progress on the zero draft of Booty-Call Bust.  It’s difficult, but I think I’m learning!

June Goals

This month has been a gauntlet.  I knew going in that this would be difficult, but I didn’t think about how long the cycling event would take me out of the game.  Neither did I plan on getting sick, which has really put a damper on my writing for a week.  But, you do what you can and get to it!  I’ve also learned some important things about my writing life this month, which I’ll talk about below, but first let’s review what I wanted to do, and what I did.

May Goals!

• Write bunches.
• Ideally, I will finish the rough draft of 3 novellas/short stories.
• Polish one short story (Rescue Me) and get ready to submit it.  Write the synopsis, query, etc.

What I did…

• I wrote the most this month out of any month this year.  At this moment I’ve crossed 90K, and there are still a few days to go in the month as of when I’m writing this.
• I wrote 2 short stories, Decoy and one I’m mockingly calling Booty-Call Bust
• Rescue Me was polished and handed over to be critiqued.  With my month being so busy I pushed the date back for my crit group to the end of the month so most of this goal is being pushed out to June.

I’ve discovered a few things this last few month.  I try too hard to be involved, to do challenges, and be part of things.  At one point I sat back and realized that all these other published authors weren’t doing the same things.  When I looked at what I was working on for the boot camp and thought back on the time tables I wrote up for myself I realized that because of my challenge commitments I can’t work on the things I want to work on.  I would have liked to revise and finish Blood Bound.  Where am I with it?  It’s ont he back burner, and I am more focused on other things that it’s slipped between the tracks.  I want to write the new beginning for Casual Love, but I’m too busy focusing on the challenge writing to do that.

So, from here on out I’m going to restrict myself on challenges and classes.  They’re dictating too much of what I’m writing.  I feel that I could be further along on a few projects than I am if I weren’t being pulled in different directions for my challenges.  Granted, I’ve agreed to do June Revision Hell and a Write-Along Class that I will be fulfilling, but for the rest of the summer until NaNoWriMo – no more challenges for me.

This is not to say that challenges are a bad thing.  Challenges are great for connecting people and motivating people by example, that’s just not what I need at this point in my writing life.

June Goals!

• Revise Decoy
• Submit Rescue Me
• Write my superhero story
• Work on my alias

I referenced the issue of writing under a pen name before and after this I’m not going to reference it.  I will attempt publishing under a pen name, and I’m beginning to use it, to be present online that way and work on building that ‘brand’.  I look forward to the goals for June.  While I would like nothing more than to dive into Casual Love and hammer out the book, I’m going to wait for July and fulfill these goals and do some reading time for myself and see the Book Addicts event through to the end.  After that, though, I’m following my gut for what I want to work on and focus my efforts.

Do you have goals for June?

Weekly Check In

This is the glad-I’m-alive edition.  Yes, I’m being melodramatic when I say that and that I felt like dying would have been a better activity than a post-drinking-bout-of-food-poisoning.  This last week was all about recovering from Stampede and getting ready for my bestfriend’s visit from Oklahoma.  Oh, and I had Massive Work Things going on.  I’m shocked I wrote what I did each day, but as always I think I could have done better, more, etc.

Savvy boot camp has fallen at an unfortunate time for me.  I know I’ve written a lot, and people are amazed with it, but I could have written more.  I could write more, really.  But with the cycling thing and this weekend gone to catching up with friends and a girl’s weekend I feel like I’ve lost two out of the four weeks of the month.  Bummer.     With that said, our team is in the top handful of teams.  Last I saw we were in the lead but I don’t know how we stand after a difficult few days between several team members being sick, out on vacation, and other realities of life happening.

A Round of Words is still in the back of my brain.  I should do better about the check-in’s and commenting on others blogs.  I haven’t been doing very well with that.  Hopefully when I rebound from all this icky feeling I will get a handle on that.

With that said, I’m still on track to accomplish those goals.  I won’t write as much as I thought I would when I began this whole adventure, but I’m doing great considering how many things I’m juggling right now.  So, lets move on, shall we?

Blogging.

I did three blogs last week based on things I heard from Reality TV shows.  They’re funny, but it’s also good examples and introductions to talking about things.  Writers aren’t the only people who need to learn to edit themselves, and other people need thick skins to deal with criticism.  Maybe I can work in a lesson based on The Real Housewives of New Jersey…

Suzan and I are discussing an upcoming blogging series we’ll do in tandem, but until plans are in place I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag.

I’d just like to take this moment to say that I don’t understand the WordPress stats on my site.  Normally I’ll get from 50-150 hits a day from unique viewers.  Awesome for someone without major publication under their belt just talking about writing and stuff.  The last few days my hits haven’t been under 600.  That’s awesome.  Lots of exposure, but I have no idea where those people are coming from.

Revising.

I did a pass on Decoy and I’m excited about diving into it for Revision Hell in June.  I’m starting to think a lot about doing revisions on Casual Love.  I’ll be rewriting the beginning of the novel and changing a lot of stuff so I’m cringing, but I think that the story is worth the effort.  There’s a lot going on in that story but I like it and I want to see it through to a finished product.

Plotting.

This was an awesome weekend for plotting, sickness aside.  It was my turn to bring my plot points to the writing group.  I wasn’t sure what format to use, and there was some confusion about how I presented everything, but I got some useful feedback especially on how to wrap the story up and make it cohesive as far as the tension and conflict goes.  I think I’ll do some work on that and bring it back next week even though I don’t like bringing stuff to the group twice, this is the plot and I think it’s important.

Writing.

Project: Booty-Call Bust
Genre: romance
Type: novella
Progress: I’m still in love with this story.  There’s action and romance and secret spies and I’m having a blast writing it.  I just didn’t think it would take me this long to write it.  I’d hoped to finish it last week but I never got myself into writing gear long enough to crank it out.  This is my mission this week, to crank it out.  The story is brainstormed and plotted, I just have to write it.

Project: Secret Life of a Sex Blogger
Genre: romance
Type: novella
Progress: The title says it all, honestly.  I had this idea and I’m doing some ground work to research it.  I want to write a non-white heroine, which makes me nervous, but I think there needs to be a little less vanilla in my literature.

Project: The Revenge of Baba Yaga
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
Type: novel?
Progress: I’m skeptical if this will ever be completed.  What happened was I took a Steampunk workshop last month and brainstormed a Russian steampunk story using traditional fairy tales and the degradation of magic as steam technology pushes it aside and people move on.  Since it was already on the dark side I used it for my horror workshop to create a more horror type story.  We had to write the opening scenes and submit them to the class.  A little nerve wracking, but I’m happy with what I produced.  Now will I ever write the story?  I don’t know.

What I read.

• We Kill Dead Things by Sommer Marsden
• Eat Slay Love by Jesse Petersen (OMG the book rocks, but I keep flipping back a few chapters and rereading them and moving forward.  It never takes me this long to read a book, but between wanting to reread it already and all the crazy Other Stuff going on it’s taking me ages to read anything!)

ROW 80 Check In

I’m going t do a proper check in this week.  I’ve been blogging less so I might as well do the proper check in, right?  No excuses!

Okay, this last week was the kick off of the Savvy Author’s Boot Camp, which translates to uber focused writing and editing time.  I’ll talk more about it tomorrow when I do my big weekly check in.

ROW 80 Goals…

1. Finish Casual Love

Done, and done, and done! I need to write a new beginning for it but I’m not ready for that. I’m still exhausted from just writing it.  I’m kind of hoping that the last week of May I will have the three stories I have slated to write for the boot camp done and I can churne out a new beginning then, but in the meantime I should probably read over the book so I get a better handle on what exactly it is I need to establish in the beginning of the book.  This is more on the revising of this book, but oh well.

2. Finish at least two short stories.

These are more like novellas.  The first one I wrote, Rescue Me, is out making the critique rounds.  I told the group origionally two weeks and realized that with the boot camp I should wait until June, so in a monthish I’ll circle back to this and work on it again.  I have a general plan for the siblings of the sister introduced in this story in case I can write the whole family.

Decoy is what I’ve been working on in the last week.  It’s pretty awesome.  I’ll talk more about it tomorrow.

3. Do writerly things every day.

This last week was a return to the dedicated mentality of doing things every day.  Yeah, I felt guilty for the two weeks I was laying around reading all the time but I needed that.  It was writerly in that I needed my ‘word tank’ refilled.  It wasn’t obviously writing or revising or whatever time, but it’s still an important part of being a writer.  And I’m okay with that.  This last week though has seen me at the computer until all hours of the night getting in those words and pages!

4. Juggle revisions and writing.

The boot camp has made this really happen.  I revise during the day at lunch or before work, and then write and blog at night.  It’s really working out well.  The revision project this last week was a fantasy book I wrote last year called Maliginus.  I’ve been writing on Decoy.  Last night I did a quick pass through a short story I wrote during NaNo called Gentleman Pirates and Lady Smugglers.  Sometimes I really surprise myself with my writing.  All things are awesome!

May Goals

April was more about recharging myself than writing or revising more.  I had my goals set light, but ended up slacking off even more and just reading.  It was good.  It was needed.  And I’m glad I did it.  So, getting on to the point of this whole blog!

April Goals!

• Finish Casual Love.
• Go through my completed novels (Absolutely and Maliginus, mainly) and evaluate them for revision worthiness.  I think they’re both worth looking at and working with but we’ll see!
• Side project short stories.  Write a few.  Get them out of my system.

What I did…

• I finished Casual Love!!!
• I read through Absolutely, cleaned it up a little, and gave it to my friends to read for fun.  I also waded through the mess that was my roller derby story and decided that it’s a lost cause.  The characters are great – but the story sucks.  I didn’t get through Maligimus, and I’m sad about that but I’ll hold off on the project for later.  I have hope for the book in the long run.
• I started several short stories – but – ah – didn’t finish anything except Rescue Me.  It’s currently out on critique rounds.

May is Savvy Author’s Boot Camp month.  I have but one goal…

May Goals!

• Write bunches.
• Ideally, I will finish the rough draft of 3 novellas/short stories.
• Polish one short story (Rescue Me) and get ready to submit it.  Write the synopsis, query, etc.

So bring on the challenge!

Weekly Check-In

This last week has been all about high notes.  I knew that this last week was kinda ‘my week’.  I was going to succeed with flying colors, I just hadn’t realized how amazingly I was going to do.  I’m still flying high from my success, but I might be nose diving pretty soon.  *bites finger nails*

Blogging.

I was doing soooo well at blogging ahead of time.  Now, I’m lucky if I have my blogs done a week ahead. *sigh*  I have the topics and place holder posts for future blogs with the idea jotted down in the body of the post, but I have to come back the week or even the night before and write the dang things.  I need to get back into the jive of having the blogs written out way in advance.

I kicked off my Goals series this week, and on Friday talked about the importance of goals.  This coming week I’m going to talk about setting realistic goals and keeping yourself accountable.  Both are easy to talk about, and very difficult to put into practice.  I foresee a lot of self deprecating stories when I sit down to write those blogs…

Revising.

This has been moved to urgent status this week.  As of Tuesday, I’m in a revising and editing class.  Because I decided to take an extra week to finish Casual Love, which I talk about below, I have lost a week of revisions.  I’m diving back into Blood Bound to revise and polish it.  I really love the story, and I think there’s more there to tell.  So I’m writing new scenes, explaining stuff that was crammed into the story too tightly by the word count restriction and beefing up the story.  I hope to take a week to write new scenes and then two weeks to edit and fine tune those scenes before I hand it off to other people for critiques.  Is that a tight schedule?  Yes, but I’m hoping that I can do it in that time because the Savvy Authors May Boot Camp is looming on the horizon and I want to be turning out wordcounts and not pages edited.  If, in the end, I need more editing time I will take it.

I put in a lot of revising and editing on Sunday.  I read through the draft of Blood Bound, made notes of where I thought stuff needed to be added and then set about writing the new introduction.  I was struggling with a way of laying out the world building and introducing some complicated issues without info dumping.  It’s still kinda an info dump, but it’s done in a different, less dumpy way.  I’m tentatively hopeful.

Last year I wrote a paranormal romance called Absolutely, about werewolves.  It’s never going to be publishable.  The idea just isn’t interesting enough, but I’m doing a quick and dirty pass so I can at least share it with my friends and let them read this strange tale.  It’s better than I had anticipated, but not good enough to warrant me doing more with it.  I’m a third of the way through the draft, which is twice as far as I thought I would get today.  I expect it to get more involved as far as cleaning it up from here on out.

Plotting.

I started working my novel idea, Little Spirits, towards being YA.  I’m really loving where the story is going, and even more excited about it than I was to begin with.  The difficulty is that I want to write this for the May Boot Camp, and still take it through the Warrior Writer Boot Camp process.  Those are conflicting goals since honestly they can’t coexist.  You know what I’m going to do anyways?  Proceed with the WWBC process and start the draft May 1st anyways.  It’s not a great idea, since I’m still pretty fuzzy on the plot, but I’m impatient and I know myself.

So my project for the next week is to revamp the protagonist profiles, do quick and dirty profiles for their siblings and parents and the minor characters.  Next Saturday I’m supposed to be doing the main plot points of my story, but I think I’m going to lapse a week and allow the group to have a breather and look over the revamped profiles and the down and dirty synopsis I want to write.

Writing.

Ya ready for this?  Really ready?

Project:Formerly Fat Club: Casual Love
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Type: novel
Progress: It’s finished! I’m still floating on air.  I’ll come down soon, but I’m still excited and happy and yea!

I also finished a short story! Yea!  I haven’t talked about these short story projects much because I’m leaning heavily towards submitting them to be published under a pen name, for many reasons actually.  These are fun side projects that if I can sell them, I will, but mostly I write them because I want to get an idea out of my head and they’re fun.

What I read.

• Wolf Mates 2-4 by Dakota Cassidy
• The Ex-Files by Dakota Cassidy
• Dark Enchantment by Anya Bast
• Bound by Blood by Cynthia Eden

#ROW80

If you don’t know, I’m participating in the A Round of Words in 80 Days challenge.  I’m being a rebel and doing my weekly updates on Mondays because I’m old and set in my blogging ways.  *brandishes cane*  Actually I rarely post on the weekends so the Sunday check in was out, and I had already promised to blog on topics on Wednesdays so it just made sense to combine it.  Anyways!

How did I do towards my ROW80 goals this week?

• This week, like I said above, I finished Casual Love, which was #1 on my goals.
• I finished a short story.  My goal is to finish two, so I’m halfway to that goal!
• I wrote every day.

Whew! I’m exhausted wading through this, so I have no idea how you made it this far.  If I could give you a dollar just for reading this, I would.  How are you doing this week?  Have you accomplished your goals?

The End: Time for a give away, right?

Tonight is a very exciting night – for me. I finished my first ever attempt at writing a contemporary romance novel. I began this story with the spark of an idea last year, wrote a few thousand words and set it aside. Last month I picked it back up and ran with it.

Thanks to my awesome friends, I would never have made it through this.  Suzan, Carolyn, Alice, Linda, Gigi and everyone who does #1k1hr sprints, you guys made it happen!

For tonight I’m going to bask in the sense of victory.  But tomorrow I’ll wake up and start fretting about…. revisions… and critiques, oh my!

So since I’m feeling celebratory, I’m going to share by having a little giveaway.  One random commentor will receive a copy of The Writing and Critique Group Survival Guide by Becky Levine.  Before my current crit group formed I bounced around looking for a good fit.  A critique group will take your manuscript to the next level.  This book was a great help to me back then, and I want to share that.

To enter, you must be a US resident.  Sorry, shipping gets to be a beast!  Leave a comment with some way to contact you should you win.  I will contact the winner Saturday.  If you’re working on something, how close are you to writing those wonderful words ‘The End’?

April Goals

*gasp*

I’m posting and I’m not even here?  Well, yeah.  That’s the glory of being able to write blogs ahead of time and schedule them.  You can do handy things like this!

Each month I blog about my goals.  This is really a bunch of self centered focus, so don’t feel the need to get emotionally invested in this blog.  I’m sure there are others I’ve written that are more beneficial to you than just hearing how my month went.

For the most part, I’m super happy with my writing.  January and February were slow months, yielding either small numbers or long dry spells of no writing.  March has been completely different.  So far there have only been two days that didn’t involve writing.  Two!  I’m super proud of that, if nothing else this month.  So, without further ado, lets go over what my goals were, and what I really accomplished…

March Goals!

• Write a huge chunk on Casual Love, my contemporary romance which is rocking right along.
• Revise on Blood Bound. Though it came back rejected, I still believe in the story.
• Continue with the Topical Blogging.
• Have something to offer weekly for Warrior Writer Boot Camp.

What I did…

• I added over 50K (and probably by the time this post goes live, 60K) to Casual Love.  I’ve blogged about it weekly, so there’s no point in explaining how my progress is coming or that I’ve realized some of my big pot holes need fixing.  You’ve heard it all before!
• Revising Blood Bound is a next month project.  I started to do this a little.  I’ve added a few scenes I cut, write a new beginning and I’m genuinely excited about returning to this project.
• Topical Blogging is good!  I continue to get a lot of hits on last month’s series and there’s a lot of conversation about the March series.  Here’s me hoping that I don’t peter out and die on myself!
• Warrior Writer Boot Camp is going well.  I think I’m almost through my character evolutions, at which point I will begin taking the group through my plot.  This is a really cool way to work through a story.  It takes a lot of time, but I think it’s worth it for stories like Little Spirits that have a lot of moving parts.

April Goals!

• Finish Casual Love. Write “The End” and stick it on a shelf.  I’m 100% committed to this project, but I know that the amount of work the first 1/3 of the book needs is going to be excruciating unless I separate myself from it a little.
• Add new scenes to Blood Bound.
• Go through my completed novels (Absolutely and Maliginus, mainly) and evaluate them for revision worthiness.  I think they’re both worth looking at and working with but we’ll see!
• Side project short stories.  Write a few.  Get them out of my system.

I feel like my April goals are on the light side.  Lots of stepping back and evaluating where I’m at with projects, finishing stuff up and cleaning up others.  However, I’m also going to be taking three writing classes during this month so I think a little wiggle room is a necessity.  I would like to get Blood Bound to a point where it’s critique worthy.  I don’t think there will be a lot to do, mostly because I’ll only have to hand out the new scenes to people and scrounge up some beta readers.  (Yes, I know those people who have claimed beta reader status, and I <3 you.)

The other big thing I want to do during April? Read.  Read like my life depends on it.  I have a HUGE think rolling out at Book Addicts in a very short amount of time and I want to do a lot of reading and prep work for that so that when The Event happens, it’s smooth sailing.

What are your goals this month?

Weekly Update!

The last few weeks my updates have been very brief.  I think that it’s been a product of how dissatisfied I’ve been with where I was in my WIP.  I’ve been sloshing through the murky middle and questioning myself so much that I wasn’t really feeling like writing much at all, but now that I’m to a place where I’m excited about what I’m writing – I’m excited about writing anything and everything!  So, here goes…

Blogging.

I’m working on three different monthly series.  Fiction writing as therapy, goals and antagonists.  I’m not sure when I will post them or in what order.  I’m working on getting some other people involved who have some more experience in these areas than I do.  I’ll need to get cracking on these sooner rather than later, but I’m still working on all my craft projects for March.  Yikes! So much going on and so much to do!

Revising.

Nada.  Next month will be ALL about the revisions and self-editing.  I even signed up for a self editing class (mostly because my clone-mother Suzan did, lol).  I’m excited about this because I hope to be focusing on Blood Bound by then.

Plotting.

Because there’s so many people working on their stuff for Warrior Writer Boot Camp, I offered to table my submission last week, which is my 2nd Antagonist for my horror story.  His name is Jonah and he’s pretty cool.

In other news, I’ve been watching shows about psychics and other kinds of paranormal investigations.  The style of the investigations is interesting.  Some focus on dealing with them from a religious stand-point, where others just want to catalogue th experience and move on.  I think I should write up some short articles about it and save them for later posts perhapse.

One of the psychics/mediums/sensitives that appears on both Paranormal State and Psychic Kids, Chris Coffey, is going to be in Dallas.  He’s hosting some kind of two hour thing that costs $50.  If you pay $100 you can go on a ghost hunt after the event.  I’m really tempted just because he conducts himself as a professional and my hokey meeter doesn’t mind him.  I did google local paranormal investigators and I’m curiously cautious about contacting them for some interviews and discussing how they conduct their investigations.  I’ll save that for closer to my plotting phase.

Writing.

After last weekend, I’ve had a lot of success writing.  There were a few days when I only wrote a few hundred words because of time restraint and everything else going on, but overall I’ve been powering through my draft.  It’s been really exciting since I hit the high point in the middle.  I think it’s really important to get into the habit of daily writing.  Right now my goal is just to write some each and every day.  Even if it’s only a few hundred words, it’s still moving forward.

Project: Formerly Fat Club: Casual Love
Genre: contemporary romance
Type: novel
Progress: I’m super excited about the story right now!  I was dwindling a bit before I hit last weekend, but achieving that high point in the story really made me feel more excited about the story.  I’m on to writing all about the complicated first steps in a relationship and I’m genuinely excited every day about the time I’m going to sit down and write.  The weekend was really productive, but judging from how far I am into the plot and the word count, I’m just going to have to accept that I started the story way too far in advance.  I’ll be blogging about tough judgments in your manuscript later today, but I’m not letting this get me down!  Just means I need to write more, and be very serious about my writing time.

What I read.

I’m really, really, really excited about a lot of books coming out late spring/early summer.  The ones I’m currently jonesing for the most are Dark Enchantment by Anya Bast, the third in her Dark Magic series, and Kiss of Snow, number like nintybillion in Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series.  I’m supposed to be reading for April Book Addicts stuff, but all I’ve wanted to do this week is re-read stuff.  This is dangerous, as all the dabwaha voting is going on makes me want to reread all these awesome books like The Iron Duke, Byou Moon, There Be Monsters, Lead Me On, the Kate Daniels books, and I’ve been holding out on even starting Nalini Singh’s Archangel series!  I could spend about two weeks rereading all of these books because they rock that much.

And don’t ask me what dabwaha stands for.  It’s like Fantasy Football, but for books.  so it’s like Fantasy Book Stuff… Um, ignore me.  You pick which books you think will win over other books and starting March 16th we start voting on rounds.  It’s been so much fun to watch people trash talk on twitter.

• Wicked Enchantment – Anya Bast
• Sweet Enchantment – Anya Bast
• Stroke of Enticement – Nalini Singh
• Lead Me On – Victoria Dahl
• Wanderlust – Ann Aguirre
• A Whole New Light – Julia Devlin
• Riding the Rail – Julia Devlin