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Today is April 23, 2019. Yesterday I submitted my book to Amazon for publishing! Months of hard work editing and re-writing sections of the book. It's finally done. It's submitted. It will be published Thursday! Woohoo! I've read/ listened to 10 books so far this month. I've added 6 audiobooks and 3 physical books and 30 ebooks(most of them were either free or on sale). It's been a busy reading/writing month. That's on top of completing 20-30 job applications per week. We have had the weirdest weather as per usual for Colorado Springs in April. We got up and down 20-50 degrees every other day. It has snowed multiple times. We've had multiple days of 70-75 temps. It's been crazy and wonderful.

My April 2019 TBR is pretty simple. I want to finish all the books I had in progress as of the end of March. That means I'm reading: - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo(ebook) - Girl, Stop Apologizing(audiobook) Finished 4/2/19 - The Princess Diarist(audiobook) -Hot Heir(ebook) -Haroun and the Sea of Stories(audiobook) -A Curse So Dark and Lonely(hardback) -Tools of Titans(hardback) -Blitzscaling(audiobook)

So I realized when I was doing edits that a LOT has changed in my life since I wrote the first and even the final draft of my book. Like an incredible amount. Big life changes. Some positive, some negative. But they have changed my views on a few of the topics that I talk about in my book.  Since I'm self publishing and came down with pnuemonia a week before my anticipated publication date- I needed to push back my publication date. I couldn't even write in bed. It was too much effort that I didn't have the energy to expend. So I slept and watched movies and coughed my lungs out. Now I'm feeling a lot better. Tomorrow is my last day of antibiotics. Woohoo! This week I am doing rewrites. Next week final edits. Hopefully the week after that, submittal of the final manuscript.  Keep up with me on social media  at @bethysbook. 

So today is April 2. Woot Woot. We made it through the first quarter of the year. Here is my March Wrap Up and Book Haul Wrap Up: 5 books Beauty and the Beefcake- 4 stars Lady Knight- 5 stars Royally Pucked- 3.5 stars Discount Armegeddon 4.5 stars The House of Winter- 4.5 stars 5 books: 2 ebooks, 2 audiobooks, 1 paperback 22 hours listened 782 pages read March Book Haul: 20 books Ogre Enchanted The White Road of the Moon Us Kids Know To Best the Boys Girls of Paper and Fire Boneless Mercies A Curse So Dark and Lonely Beyond Grit Enchantee Girl, Stop Apologizing Tools of Titans The CEO Next Door Hot Heir The Rockstar Remedy Herbal Antibiotics My Sister the Serial Killer The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo A Man and His Meatballs Dinner in an Instant The Ultimate Instant Pot Cookbook for Two At the end of this month I had 8 books in progress.  - Hot Heir -Girl, Stop Apologizing -Tools of Titans -The Princess Diarist -Blitzscaling -Haroun and ...

Lots of good books came out in January that I'm looking forward to reading. Many of them are available on SCRIBD so I can access them faster than I would be able to if I joined the list to read them from my library. Here's what I want to read that came out in January 2019: The Dreamers   by   Karen Thompson Walker   (Goodreads Author)    3.84 avg rating — 2,964 ratings  — published 2019 — added by 42,364 people   Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars The Au Pair   by   Emma Rous   (Goodreads Author)    3.77 avg rating — 1,949 ratings  — published 2019 — added by 27,493 people   Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars The Kiss Thief   by   L.J. Shen   (Goodreads Author)    4.27 avg rating — 12,138 ratings  — published 2019 — added ...