Breaking the News from National Geographic: Giveaway and a Fun Quiz!

Welcome to the Breaking the News Blog Tour! This book sounded really interesting to me (and timely), so I’m eager to see what it has to say. After recently watching The Social Dilemma on Netflix and hearing that fake news spreads six times faster than actual news, I’ve realized what a huge problem this actually is. Then, of course, there are certain politicians (who will remain nameless) that like to throw out the term Fake […]

Posted November 6, 2020 in Giveaways (Ended) / 8 Comments

October 2020 Wrap-Up and Best of the Bunch

My Goings-On in October: Biting my nails over politics. Please, please, please let this election turn out to be a good thing and let us get back to some kind of normal! Quarantining. We spent the last two weeks indoors because my daughter was exposed to COVID through her high school swim team. She tested negative, and it was no big deal, really. Let’s face it, we haven’t been going out much lately anyway. Basement […]

Posted November 2, 2020 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 22 Comments

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 11/1/20

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. This past week on FYFA (and in my life): Basement Writing Retreat – My basement writing retreat was very successful! I got a lot written, even if I didn’t quite finish the book. The […]

Posted November 1, 2020 in Sunday Post / 19 Comments

November 2020 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway

This graphic is weird. It makes no sense but neither does anything else, and at least these alpacas are cute. Also, coffee. Welcome to the November monthly link-up for the 2020 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! Raise your hand if you’re exhausted! This has been… a time, friends. Between the election and the pandemic, life feels like a poorly written apocalyptic […]

Posted November 1, 2020 in Book Blog Discussion Challenge, Giveaways (Ended) / 2 Comments

October 2020 Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up & Giveaway

The Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up is hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight. The September giveaway ends soon, so head over there for your last chance to enter! This is the link-up AND giveaway for our October wrap-up posts. If you don’t already know about the Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up, read the information below: Every month, at the end of the month, we’ll put up a monthly wrap-up link-up […]

Posted October 26, 2020 in Giveaways (Ended), Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up / 10 Comments

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 10/25/20

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. This past week on FYFA (and in my life): Back in official quarantine. My daughter Danielle was exposed to COVID via two of her swim coaches and has to quarantine until 11/1. The […]

Posted October 25, 2020 in Sunday Post / 26 Comments

Off On a Basement Writing “Retreat”

Starting tomorrow, I’m going to try to hole myself up in the basement and focus on writing for a whole week. I have no idea how successful this will be, but I figure it’s worth a try. I had been considering going on a real writing retreat, but right now my family’s quarantined anyway until November 1st (more about that in my Sunday Post tomorrow), and my mom’s here with us, so I figure I […]

Posted October 24, 2020 in Let's Discuss / 22 Comments

Bite-Sized Reviews of Cybils Nominees: Race to the Sun, Skunk and Badger, The Dragon Thief, and The Forgotten Girl

As my regular readers know, I’m a round one judge for the Cybils Awards in the Middle Grade Speculative Fiction category. Because of that, I’ve been reading LOTS of books lately! I’m not allowed to share any details about our process for choosing the finalists, but I am allowed (and encouraged) to review the books as I read, so I figured I’d share four of them with you today. I hope these bite-sized reviews will […]

Posted October 23, 2020 in Cybils, Reviews / 0 Comments

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 10/18/20

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. This past week on FYFA (and in my life): Reading Still doing lots of reading for the Cybils Awards (since I’m a round one judge). For Cybils, I finished Race to the Sun and […]

Posted October 18, 2020 in Sunday Post / 28 Comments

Bite-Sized Reviews of Cybils Nominees: A Wish in the Dark, Ghost Squad, Scritch Scratch, & Midnight at the Barclay Hotel

Posted October 17, 2020 in Cybils, Reviews / 13 Comments