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Review of Teaching The Teacher's Pet by Sarah Sutton

 

When the popular crowd at Brentwood High votes me Most Likely To: Marry A Math Book, I’m ready to put my ruler into the eye of any egotistical jock who comes near me.

Including the idolized Bobcats football player, Connor Bray, when he asks me to tutor him.

His only requirement?

Our tutoring sessions must be top-secret—meaning that because Connor is too embarrassed to be seen with the resident math geek, I can’t even tell my boyfriend I’m helping Brentwood High’s all-star player.

And I’m about to tell him where he can stick his protractor when the principal steps in, saying that if I agree to help Connor pass his makeup test—and keep him on the team to lead Brentwood to the State Championships—she’ll reinstate the valedictorian award I’d been striving for my entire life.

Brentwood High’s finest, cornering its top student with bribery.

But there is one thing Connor might have to offer in return—love advice to recapture the spark with my ever-distant boyfriend. Connor, who keeps the student body mesmerized just by flashing a forearm, is bound to have a good game plan, right?

Except when Connor begins to give me lessons in love—and his demonstrations are breathtakingly thorough—it starts to feel like I’m the one getting schooled.

 

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My Review:  5 STARS

Having read all of Sutton’s other books, this one was on my tbr the moment I had space. I loved the idea of a list and everyone at school trying to prove their titles wrong. Maisie was delightful as a character and getting to know her and Connor just had me speeding through the book in one sitting. I adored the trope, one that I usually find isn’t done well, but Sutton has a way with words and made this one perfect, giving you all the threads of the story and tying them up at the end. Overall an amazingly delightful read, and highly recommended!

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Telling you all about what I was up to in October, as well as reviewing goals and setting new ones! #Authortube

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Spoonie Writer: Keeping Motivated

SPOONIE WRITER: KEEPING MOTIVATED

NaNoWriMo is upon us, and once again we're trying to write 50K or we're being a rebel and setting our own word count. I know that for a lot of writers, this is their season for getting things done, and for a lot of spoonie writers, it's also the season where they try maybe, and find themselves getting overwhelmed, either through a flare or just general fatigue from pushing so hard to write those 1,667 words every single day.

If you don't know, I do NaNoWriMo pretty much every year, and 2022 is no different. My plan is to be somewhat a rebel in that I'll be working on 50K over two different projects, rather than the usual one. I've been doing this every November since about 2015/2016 when I set myself the goal to write one page for every day of the month. I met that goal, and in the year following was able to get to a point where I could, somewhat, write 50K in a month. A lot of has happened since then, health has gotten worse, life has gotten more complicated and so usually I only go for 50K in November, and May (those are usually my brand new projects months) and the rest of the year I sit around the 40K mark.

I'm not going to tell you, as a spoonie, or as a writer, that you just have to keep pushing yourself until you get there because it's both not true, and not healthy, also it breeds some pretty bad writing habits and you may end up getting to the point where you hate your project to the point that you put it away and never pick it back up again. I don't want that for you, I don't want that for any writer, and that's one of the reason why I am such a big advocate for taking whatever time you need and slow and steadily winning the race that way.

So I'm not going to tell you to push, and I am going to advocate for taking your time, so what exactly is the use of a post that goes out at the end of the first week of NaNoWriMo? Glad you asked, because I'm going to give you some tips for what to do when you know you want to write, but you're unsure if you can write much, or in your usual spot.

#1 COMFORT IS KEY
I go through stages of writing in bed, at my desk, on the couch. I usually try and go for where it's going to cause me the least pain. Right now I'm more comfortable in my wheelchair at my desk because of the way it's all set up, but during long writing sessions, I might switch between the two, and that's completely okay. If you're trying to get to a massive word count, then you need to be somewhat comfortable doing so. If that means you retire to bed to get your words at ten am, then so be it!

#2 SPRINTS & REST BOTH WORK
So I'm not someone who does writing sprints all that often. I find that I work better in silence and on my own, and just sit down to pour out the words without any timer that's going to ding in my ear the moment I get into the flow. That said, if you are someone who does find the social part of sprints work for you, or even just the timer helps, then by all means take advantage of that during this month. But, also remember that rest isn't the enemy here. It might feel like it when you're 1K words down and you don't have much longer, but resting is so very important, not just for a spoonie, but for anyone. The last thing we want is burnout, and that happens especially from not taking the appropriate rests.

#3 MANAGE YOUR TIME IF POSSIBLE
Now everyone manages their time differently, and they all go about it in different ways. I have my planner, and my ipad calendar, and others will use time blocking and such. However you plan, try and have some idea of when your best time to write is, and also how much you can get done in a block comfortably. I'm going to emphasise that it should be comfortably, because pushing ourselves is just going to lead to stress and upset and no one can work well with either.

#4 ASK FOR HELP OFTEN
Whether this is from your friends, your family, your partner or just the writing community as a whole. If there's a way to get help with something in your writing, or out of it, then go ahead and ask for that help. There is nothing wrong with needing it, it doesn't make you weak in the slightest. Asking for help and getting that help to smooth the way for writing is a golden tip, and you can use it as often as you need.

So there we go, those are my tips, may I wish you all a happy NaNoWriMo and hope that you achieve your goals!

Any questions? Lemme know in the comments!

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Review of A Heartbeat Away From You by Ann M Miller

Fearless Ali—implanted with a pacemaker—sets her sights on a return to the diamond, but her overprotective dad throws her a curveball when he enlists her childhood nemesis to keep her out of the game.

After a daredevil play on the baseball field leads to a four-minute long cardiac arrest, seventeen-year-old Ali Benton is lucky to be alive. Now she wants to make the most of her second chance—and she's not going to let a pesky little pacemaker, or her helicopter dad, slow her down.
Between chairing multiple school clubs and working two jobs to help his single mother pay the bills, Max Delaney has got every second of every day planned. His childhood nemesis, Ali, doesn't figure into any of them. But when her overprotective father offers him cash to keep an eye on her and steer her away from baseball, his plans change.

Ali can't figure out why Max, the condescending know-it-all, is sticking to her side like Krazy Glue, and Max can barely tolerate headstrong Ali. But opposites attract, and before long, fighting turns to kissing. Even as sparks fly, the secrets they've been keeping threaten to tear them apart. When Max learns Ali's been putting herself in harm's way and playing ball in secret, he struggles with how to tell her father. If he tattles, he'll lose her trust. If he doesn't, he may lose her heart…in more ways than one.

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My Review: 5 STARS

I picked this up hoping for a delightfully sweet read, and I was not disappointed in the slightest! I adored Ali and Max, getting to know them both and getting to see their love story develop. It was a quick read, but that was more not wanting to stop and miss a thing.  I loved the chronic illness rep, and the twists and turns through the story. The couple were delightful and it was just overwhelmingly adorable. Very much recommended to all who love contemporary romance!

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Looking back on 17 years as an indie author, and nearly 20 books and thinking about what I've learned in that time! #Authortube

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Roe fell into step with us as we made our way to our class, I didn’t even acknowledge Meera trailing behind me. Roe must have realised something was up,  because she asked if I was okay. I wasn’t okay, I was far from okay, so far that it felt like I was in another country from okay. Meera’s pain hit me in the chest, a dull ache that I didn’t think was going to go away any time soon, and it stole my breath.

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