I should be trying to nap but...

Another sleepless night; as in, I was still awake at 9:30 A.M.  I don't know what I'm going to do about my crazy sleep issues.  If I take a sleeping pill I'm great but who wants to depend on a pill to make them sleep everynight.  I know part of the issue was my own fault.  I let my sugar get low yesterday afternoon and ended up having to drink down a cola to keep myself from blacking out.  I never have anything with caffine and it hit me hard with lingering effects.  On a positive note, I got a lot of new books read which I enjoyed them all.  Wonder if there will ever be enough books in the word to get some things off my mind...

My Blood Approves Series

I so love my Kindle and the fact that I can buy a new book when it’s 1 A.M., I can’t sleep, and I‘m laying in bed in my jammies.


I just finished up a new series, My Blood Approves, by Amanda Hocking. I read all four of the books in the past two days. I told you before…I’m a book whore!

The author is young and self published. I really love the idea of being able to buy books and know that most of the money I’m spending is going directly to the author and not some big publishing house who is out for themselves and not the author’s best interest.

The books were good. Not the best I’ve ever read but good enough to make me want to go back and buy the next one, and the next one, and the next one. Not to mention all the sleep I did without to be able to read four novels in two days! The editing made me cringe but keep in mind that these are self published. You all know how it is when you’ve written something; it’s hard to edit when you already know what it’s suppose to say. Our brains just automatically correct it as we read and never pick up on what we’ve messed up. It’s the educator in me that wants to pull the red pen out and make corrections. That being said, I really don’t mind that much now that I know how new this author is and that she is self published.  These books were only $2.99 (ebook) each at Amazon.com.  Most novels (ebooks) are around $4-$8 so your getting a good deal.

This young lady has just published these books in the past 8 months and has already had an amazing amount of success. I can’t wait to read more from her and watch how she grows as a writer over the next few years. You can read more about her amazing success at her blog, http://amandahocking.blogspot.