April Wrap-Up

I can't believe April is over already.  Where has all the time gone?

So, without further ado, here are some things that happened in April.

1. I finished my MS for Iron Curse and sent it off to beta read. Hopefully I will be nice and fresh-minded when I get everything back to do more revisions.
2. If you follow me on twitter, you may have noticed a couple things. One is that I turned  closet into a built-in bookshelf. Yay!
3. The other is that my laptop broke and I had to buy a new one. Boo! I'm still not used to this keyboard.
4. I participated in Camp NaNoWriMo very last minute. Between editing and drafting Spy Project, I barely met my goal of 20k. 
5. I read a lot.
6. I had my birthday. So my book haul is kind of huge.

I'm not listing everything I read.  Instead, I'm just going to jump into the haul, massive as it is.

Books I Bought/Preordered

I found this the Friday before it was set to release.  And before you ask, there is a dictionary in the back.

Okay I obviously didn't buy How to Hang a Witch (it's an ARC).  I won it during a #BBTC chat.  But all this stuff came in on the same day, so they all had their pictures taken together.  I've been playing around with an idea for a Phantom of the Opera retelling.  I ended up using some of my cash back rewards on amazon to buy the original.

I mean of course I had The Mirror King preordered.  I also had the paperback preordered, but due to a couple snafus, they sent me a hardcover instead.  Which I already have (duh). So with it all fixed, I have an extra hardcover along with the paperback.

Yes, I had this preordered.  I had ordered the UK edition hoping to match to my other paperbacks, but they don't match at all.  And I honestly don't like the UK paperback (it's not nearly as nice as the US ones). So I will be working on getting the hardcovers before Maggie's event in June.  Expect a giveaway of this copy (I will have it signed) at some point.  I also preordered the audiobook of this.  That way I was able to listen at work.  I didn't write a review for this one, but it contained all the feels.

One random trip to BAM and I bought three books.  The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater, Seven Black Diamonds by Melissa Marr, and What I Thought Was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Last of things I bought, I had a $10 gift card to BAM. So I bought this. Bought is a strong term since I didn't pay anything for it but you get the point.

The Birthday Haul

All in one picture:

1) My Heart and Other Black Holes

2) Burning Glass

3) Night Study

4) Their Fractured Light

5) Rebel of the Sands

6) The Arabian Nights (B&N special edition with gold pages and illustrations)

7) Vicious

8) Blackhearts

9) Elementals

10) Falling Kingdoms  (UK edition)

11) Rebel Spring (UK edition)

12) Witch Hunter (UK edition)

-wipes forehead- Wow that is a lot of books. How was your April?