A New Journey

 It's been a long time since I've written here and, honestly, I miss it. I've just been so uninspired this year. I haven't gotten nearly as much writing done as I wanted to and most of the time I'm too tired or sick to do anything. But, we're starting a new journey. 

    After a lot of thought, I've decided to move my book reviews from TikTok to Youtube. I belive doing this will give me the chance to delve deeper into the books I review, letting me talk about themes, characters, triggers, and everything. The time limit on TikTok and the amount of times I've accidentally deleted a 10-minute recording session were ultimately the factors that lead me to this decision. 

    In an effort to get this blog back up and running, my plans are to post each YouTube video here as well.

    Things you'll find on my Youtube channel are:

        -Stitches and Stories (knitting and book reviews

        -The conclusion of Books and Beanies

        -Possibly Real Talk Times (I haven't decided yet)

        -Book unboxings/hauls

    I'm also going to open up author interviews again. My goal will be to do one a month, but I might end up with more. Hopefully, all of these interviews will make it into my next Anxious Author book. They'll focus on the creative process and how authors go about molding their stories. 

    If you're an author and would like to be interviewed, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/U7LC68THw27tUf1E8

    Without further ado (and because I'm too unmotivated to wrap this post up any other way) here's the intro video for my new Youtube channel. Please subscribe, like, and comment :) 



    




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