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Your Life Has Been Delayed

Release Day!August 24, 2021
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I’m usually very firm on holding off until the d I’m usually very firm on holding off until the day after Thanksgiving for anything Christmas-related, but I just couldn’t wait to read ONE WAY OR ANOTHER by @karajmcdowellbooks. Considering I read it in a day, I’m not *that* early anyway… The book is pitched as Sliding Doors meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before and follows Paige Collins, who lives in debilitating fear of making the wrong choice. When Paige is presented with two last-minute options for Christmas vacation, she's paralyzed by indecision. Should she go with her best friend (and longtime crush) Fitz to his family's romantic mountain cabin? Or accompany her mom to New York, a city she’s spent her whole life dreaming about? A slippery grocery store floor sends her into both possible realities. I love this kind of setup, and Kara McDowell handles it so well, alternating between the two realities with tension mounting at the end of each chapter so that I could not put the book down. I found myself equally invested in each reality and impressed by how each one was leading toward resolution. The book also addresses Paige’s anxiety and how she starts to work through it. The romance is fantastic, but the internal character journey is also super important. Highly recommend this gripping read! #karamcdowell #onewayoranotherbook #onewayoranother #yareader #yabookstagrammer #yabooksofinstagram #yalover #yaliterature #ireadyalit #ireadyabooks #ireadyanovels #yaloving #yacontemporary #yacontemporaryromance #yaromance #yaromcom
Today marks 9 months until YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN DELA Today marks 9 months until YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN DELAYED releases. This is when the term “book baby” gets real! Over on my blog (link in bio), I’m sharing 9 Songs for 9 Months Out—basically a playlist for the book 😃. It includes YouTube videos of the songs and brief explanations of their connection to the book. Here are the first 5 songs as a teaser: 1. Leaving On A Jet Plane by Chantal Kreviazuk 2. Run-Around by Blues Traveler 3. Back in Time by Huey Lewis and the News 4. 867-5309/Jenny by Tommy Tutone 5. The ’90s by Lisa Loeb Each month on the 24th leading up to release day, I’ll share more behind-the-scenes info. Let me know if there’s anything in particular you’d like to know! #yourlifehasbeendelayed #yatimetravel #lifedelayed #ylhbd #the21ders #2021debut #bloomsburyya #bloomsburykids #bookplaylist #9songsfor9monthsout #9monthsuntilrelease #bookbabygetsreal #yaauthorsofinstagram #yaauthorlife #authorgram #yafictionwriter #yawritersofinstagram
Our copy of the latest KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES b Our copy of the latest KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES book finally arrived. It’s always a fight over who gets to read first, since everyone in the house loves this series. Somehow my husband ended up the winner tonight... #keeperofthelostcities #kotlc #familyreads #shannonmessenger
Soaking up every last minute of warmth before the Soaking up every last minute of warmth before the cold settles in for good. #lastwarmdayoffall #ornotbecausemissouri #afternoonwalk #writingbreak
Our excitement for the day is having someone dig u Our excitement for the day is having someone dig up our yard to find a leak that’s been here for nearly a year. He found it! On the plus side, it’s the responsibility of the water company since it’s outside our house instead of inside. Still a bunch of hoops to jump through (first discovered it back in August!). At least the contractor didn’t have to dig under our deck! #brightside #waterleak #diggingintheyard #gettingitfixed
Finished a new blanket last night! It had been a f Finished a new blanket last night! It had been a few years since I crocheted, and around February I decided I really wanted a new blanket (I’m always cold!). So I started this one with some yarn I already had, then COVID hit and for some reason this yarn was in particularly short supply, but I finally finished. Now I will probably return to cross-stitching again. #crochetersofinstagram #crochetblanket #crochetproject #hobbies #writerhobbies
A cat picture for your Saturday evening. Also beca A cat picture for your Saturday evening. Also because I realized I haven’t given Chaucer as much love here as the other pets in a while, and he was our first. Sixteen and going strong! #chaucer #catsofinstagram #petsofinstagram #lovemycat #chaucerthecat
Yesterday I turned in my copyedits, and while it w Yesterday I turned in my copyedits, and while it was pretty exhausting, I also found it quite fun (longer post on my blog, link in bio). But then, I’m the type of person who will pull out my editing textbook and read up to see exactly why that rule is being applied, so… I’m also the person who keeps a running document of editing notes so I won’t have to make the same corrections on the next manuscript. Having worked in PR, where I followed AP Style, but also having majored in English, I don’t mind switching between styles depending on the sort of writing. The words pictured above are just a few the copy editor corrected. As you can probably guess, adding or removing hyphens or, in one case, spelling out an abbreviation. Just about EVERYTHING is abbreviated in AP Style… Oh, and you use way fewer commas. Although I’ve gotten much more used to adding those in 😃. Any other word nerds out there? Or is this part of the process just tedious to you? #yourlifehasbeendelayed #yatimetravel #lifedelayed #ylhbd #copyeditingfun #amrevising #ameditingya #yawritersofinstagram #writerscommunityofig #yawriterlife #writerslifestyle #youngadultauthor #iwriteya
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