housekeeping: the archive
The way my life works right now is that I work not-quite-full-time-but-damn-does-it-feel-like-it and then I can choose the things I want to do afterward before I have to get nine hours of sleep (my body is so ridiculous). There’s fandom and games and TV and books and for awhile I chose books and tried to maintain a blog like everyone else, but it’s hard. I’m a Livejournal girl (it’s not you, blogosphere, it’s the threaded comments) and I honestly miss writing in fandom and doing ridiculously fun fic exchanges and getting dorky about my newsletter and writing filthy porn. I also want to try my hand at my own manuscript, seeing as how I’m 26 and I’m sure not getting any younger. Renay wants to write novels with boys kissing, universe! Please send her more time.
YA Fabulous will still have all the YA reviews I write. Basically, business as usual with all my nattering about jumping sharks and critical analysis that includes expletives and reviews in one long, Elements-of-Style-be-damned run on sentence, but with less rude commentary and essays about Why Does The World Suck So Much and Refuse To Shape Itself to My Desires (cue cheering). The other difference can be noted by visiting YA Fabulous! itself. The way my site looks now gave me the excuse to do what I’ve wanted to for awhile: combine my feeds. PHP is crazy, guys. So, feel free to choose one (you probably don’t want more than that, even I don’t like me that much):
Truly, this is the best move for me right now, but on the surface for the three (maybe three. maybe) people who read this blog nothing much will change unless you change feeds above (and no one has to! Totally optional!).
So, um, enough with all that. What’s everyone been reading lately?
Which YA authors do you follow on Twitter?
The Paper Towns contest (in the entry above this) is almost over. I am pretty happy that people actually took part. Exciting! I think I owe most of this to Steph, who is awesome about spreading the word, so thanks to her.
I have acquired a twitter account specifically for this project at twitter.com/yafabulous. I’m not quite sure what I’ll post there yet. I have designs on including links to my personal reviews I do on my LJ, highlighting books and authors in my delicious archive that might otherwise get lost in the mix, and pointing out interesting discussions I might not add to the archive but that I still think deserve some attention. I will also natter a lot; I’m really good at tl;dr’ing for ever and ever.
I’ve also added a list of upcoming reviews/co-reviews to the sidebar. I didn’t realize I had so many going at once. Huh.
Now I am off to read more One Piece!
I have not been bookmarking. I am very, very far behind (I have no clue how I am going to catch up! I won’t think of it for now). I also have not been reading. Poor, sad blog. Maybe now that the election is over and I’m not stalking FiveThirtyEight.com every five minutes, I can get back to things!
(Stupid, addicting election!)
The Paper Towns contest is still open and will be until the end of the month. Send your friends! I am very excited about it; I’m in the middle of a Paper Towns reread myself and I am feeling the warm glow of John Green love all over.
Meanwhile, I finished a book and wrote a review and that review was eaten. I am pretty upset over this, considering the review was 5,000 words long and I was very proud of it, critical as it was and the author has been waiting oh, a few months at this point for me to finish it. I am not making a good impression, but since losing it I have been dreading having to redo it. It means reading the book again; I don’t want to cheat the author. This is why the chorus about backing up work is important! Why didn’t I have the backup song stuck in my head. Why?
Oh well! At least when I publish it I’ll be able to promote all the other reviews I’ve been collecting of it and those reviews will get noticed and word will spread at least a little. There’s always a bright side!
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