"Reality
can be beaten with enough imagination." --Anonymous
Hello,
welcome to my little slice of the web.
Yes, the rumors are true.
I'm a book reviewer. I've been doing so for over 5 years
under a pseudonym. I started out reviewing strictly romance
novels, which gave me a great foot in the door. Now I seem
to gravitate toward suspense and paranormal, unless it's a
favorite author in another genre. Before I began reviewing
books, I had a To Be Read (TBR) pile/shelf of about 50
books. Soon, it became vicious, multiplying before my very
eyes, ballooning to over 300. I thought I'd be able to
decrease that amount, as a reviewer, but I found that after
I read a great book, I had to go buy the author's entire
backlist! My idea of a thoroughly hellish life isn't coming
face-to-face with Freddy Krueger. It's stepping into the
world of Fahrenheit 451, where books have been burned and
the world is a bleaker place.
I still review books, but I find myself editing more than
reviewing. My projects include beta reading and editing for
authors, and editing a rather large project that I'll make
known a little later.
My life is currently jam packed with various projects:
editing, writing fiction, getting involved in my church,
working behind-the-scenes on a review site and discerning
which direction I want my life to take, including its
geographical location and potentially some
post-baccalaureate education. I have little time left to
read for pleasure, or anything else for that matter, unless
it's late at night. So, yes, that means I've been cutting
in to sleep time just to read, otherwise I'd never get to
those TBR books at all.
That's okay... I can sleep when I'm old.