In My Mailbox + Update

It's been a great week for me. I've gotten several books for review and am working on setting up author chats on my forum. This week, the brilliant author behind Dirty Little Secrets, CJ Omololu, is slated to stop by the forum Wed, March 10 at 8 CST!! Whether you've read the book or not, come stop by! It's guaranteed to be exciting.

I've also started on a new WIP. Addict Boy is almost done- I just have to make myself transfer all the changes I made on paper over to the computer documents... but that means deciphering my scribble scrabble and I keep putting it off. A new kid has started talking to me though and I've gotten the brilliant twist that will come later in the story already in mind and Thursday, I wrote out his prologue. I'm toying with how to start Chapter 1 but it will come. My first WIP, before Addict Boy (And no, that is not the title, I haven't decided on a good one yet- Addict Boy is just my endearing name for the kid) has been pretty ignored but he hasn't been talking to me. Soon enough, however, I will make my way back to that guy. After the new kid. When I get the first draft of the new kid finished, you guys can probably expect some kind of contest because I will probably be on a total high about it haha.

This weekend is also when the boards on my book forum open to everything and not just the set books each week. This week's featured Tenner is, of course, CJ, but if you read an amazing book and have a burning need to talk about it- and face it, we all get that way- now you have an outlet.

I think that's about it for my updates... I'm gearing myself towards these author chats as well as author interviews for my blog and it's brought back my strong reading drive, particularly because although I have no problem doing interviews for books I haven't read, I love gearing my questions towards the book- which means reading, reading, reading. Woo! =)

And now... without further ado... onto what showed up in mailbox this week, which was a GREAT week! IMM is a weekly hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren.

For Review:

Arson by Estevan Vega (Thanks Estevan)
Exit Strategy by Ryan Potter (Thanks Ryan)
Numbers by Rachel Ward (Thanks Rachel)
A Little Wanting Song by Catch Crowley (Thanks Cath)
Poor Little Bitch Girl by Jackie Collins (Thanks St. Martins Press)
Death Of A Cure by Steven H. Jackson (Thanks Yorkshire Publishing)
The Breath of Allah by Tempest O'Rourke (Thanks Phenix & Phenix)


Won:
Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink (Signed!!)
Audrey, Wait by Robin Benway
Walk of the Spirits by Richie Tankersley Cusick


Bought from Amazon:
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Token of Darkness by Amelia Altwater-Rhodes
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill
Friday Night Bites by Chloe Neill