I've had some good things happen, I got to go to the NOLA Storycon and meet some of my favorite authors, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Samantha Young, and Jay Crownover were my very very favorites. I won NaNoWriMo for the 2nd time by writing my full 50,000 words. I've had a few publishers start sending me things without me having to reach out to them first. So I feel like my blog might finally be getting where I want it to be. I've been reading a ton of books this year. I bumped my goal on Goodreads up over 50 books for the year compared to last year. I got a new tattoo. I got picked to be a volunteer at Apollycon 2017! So hopefully next year I can add that to a good thing, especially since I cannot wait to meet Anna Todd, the books that I am in love with and got a tattoo for. Not to mention Kylie Scott is going to be there, and I am so in love with her books!
One thing that I totally need to work on is all the books I have that I don't know when I'm going to get to. I've been taking a lot of them to my school library. I figure that way they'll get the chance for other people, my students, to read them, and when I have time or am in the mood for one of them, I'll still know where they are to check out and read. Unfortunately, there are a lot of books I have that are ARCs or else my library already has, or maybe they're not in good enough condition that I can put them in my library. And this is where I'm setting up a giveaway. Below are the books that I'm looking to get rid of through a giveaway, or there a few newer ARCs I might be willing to trade for other ARCs if you want them.
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So, if you see any ARCs you'd like to trade for, you can always let me know in the comments. Otherwise, what I plan to do is pick two winners every week for the rest of December, and I am going to fill a box with 4 or 5 books from the pictures above. Newer, older, ARCs, finished, etc. They will most likely be surprise boxes. But we'll see how I feel when I draw the winners, I may let them come pick what four books they want! Or at least pick one or two to go with two that I pick.
And in each box, I will include some swag and book samplers I have. Here are pictures of the swag I have. I would be willing to trade any of it for ARCs I'm looking for as well!
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You can see some temporary tattoos in the picture on the left. Along with some post cards, an Epic Reads book of new titles, and a little blank book for Wayfarer.
I have one last item. A year ago my sister asked me if I wanted to buy a coloring book that a friend of hers had created. It's very neat, but it's not really my style of coloring book, but it is so darn neat! However, it cost me $20, again, not an amount I would normally spend on a coloring book. But, if you're interested, I'll sell it to your for $10, or else, one lucky winner the last week of December will get it in their box of books! Here is a picture of the coloring book:
So, I'm starting to think about new goals and challenges for my blog next year, as well as reflecting on how 2016 went. One thing I haven't had time for is as many posts with GIFs as I enjoy. So enjoy this one, and then go enter the contest in the Rafflecopter below it!
