It all began with this little challenge:

“Wouldn’t you like a little wiggle room in your posting schedule for your blog?  Then the Blog Ahead event hosted by Anna of Herding Cats & Burning Soup is perfect for you.”

My answer was a resounding “Hells Yeah!”  With a year that has seen (so far) more time offline than online doing what I love, the idea of getting a bit ahead was a life line.  True, I did not do as well as last year’s event, but then I cannot sit at the computer desk as much or as long as I’d like right now.  But life moves on and we do the best we can.

So, this year I took a little different approach.  I am so far behind on my NetGalley reviews.  Perhaps it will teach me a life lesson to not request books that are really far out in release dates should the unthinkable happen once again.  This year I took books from my June releases on NetGalley and read and reviewed those in advance so they can drop on release day.  And actually, it’s a system that makes perfect sense and one that I intend to continue.  I would love to get one or two months worth of reviews in the pipeline – that way when life happens, the blog and the reviewed books do not suffer as well.

But for now, I’m content with the pipeline I’ve created with Blog Ahead 2016.  The day’s not over yet, and I might get another one or two done, but I’m going with the grand total of… *drum roll, please* … 17 books ready to drop on their release days.  It’s not bad, really – and thankfully a few of those were novellas which made my life a lot easier.  🙂

So, thank you Anna for another fun event.  And I’m looking forward to seeing the Fall Blog Ahead come along later this year – maybe I can get ahead on some holiday book reviews then.  *crossed fingers*