Serial Novel Poll Results, And the Winner is...

Well, technically there was no winner and I got tired of inconclusive polls so I just removed the silly thing and decided to make up my own mind. There were two votes for Blackbirds, two votes for Nelle and one vote for the Untitled YA Contemporary Fantasy (which is actually coming along very nicely in my head...).

So, thinking about the stories, I really think that Blackbirds is going to be one of my best novels when I manage to write them down, so I am going to save that one and try to get it published (wish me luck!). The UYACF is still in a rather amorphous state at the present so I am not quite prepared to type it, which leaves Nelle. Not that Nelle is the last choice by any means, I have been working on her for close to three years now and she is one of my favorites.

Now, I am thinking that this will be a bi-monthly post that is put up every other Monday. On the Mondays without story posts, I will probably put up a teaser or a little bit of background information just for the fun of it. I will try to start this month, but the first post may not show up until September. However, I may start putting up teasers as soon as tomorrow, because I am evil that way. :)

Blog/Vacation News & Miscellanea

Hello! I am back from my lovely week in Washington and trying to catch up on all things blog-related. I had a grand time hanging out with my brother and his wife. We played the end of Halo 2 (having started it on a previous date), Halo 3, Halo ODST, Halo Reach and Rock Band (I feel very geeky having played so many computer games in such a short time, but it was fun!). We also wandered around Pike's Market and went to a delicious Mongolian grill. Now that I am back, my sister and her family have come up from New Mexico to visit and so I have been having fun playing with my adorable nieces.

This is mostly a random post of news and fun things that have been going on. (List is in chronological order.)

1. YA Bachelor Month is over and Jace won! You can go here to see the winner's post. Thank you so much for voting for my post and Jace! It is sad that this event is over because I had so much fun reading all the posts and meeting so many cute fictional guys. :)

2. I won a writing contest over on Novel Novice, as well as a copy of Divergent! (I am Natalie R.)

3. The lovely Aimee Renee gave me a blog award which I will be passing on to 5 other bloggers within the next few days, so I will go into that more on a separate post. :)

4. I have been invited to join the new collaborative blog, A Book Lover's Dream, as a reviewer, which looks like that will be a lot of fun!

As some of you may have noticed, I am very close to hitting 100 followers. When I do, I have decided to have a giveaway for a few of the lovely books I have picked up over the past few months. The more followers I gain, the more winners there will be. :)

I hope you are all having as wonderful a summer as I am!

                            Lieder Madchen