End of month report – and looking forward to August

“So Anne, how did July go?” 

Is it just me, or are months getting shorter? It doesn’t seem like a month since I wrote that post setting out my plans. You can read it again here. A few people did say it scared them to death – it actually frightened me a bit too! 

All blog tours were successfully delivered – well, eight out of the nine, because there was a tiny mix-up around one, and I’ll be reviewing it for paperback release later this year instead. 

I actually took part in 11 blog tours last month, with the addition of Debbie Howells’ The Beauty of the End (I’d already planned to review), A Jersey Bombshell by Georgina Troy, and Unquiet Souls by Liz Mistry (I so wish I could have read those two!)….

In addition to the tours, I published 10 non-tour reviews – some with added extras – and 14 features, guest posts and interviews. You’ll find them all in the panel to the left, under “July”. 

Would you believe I read 14 books in July? With this level of blog activity, that’s really the best I can do – and it’s nice that I now have a more realistic idea of what my limit is. My sincere apologies to those authors I didn’t get to, particularly any that I specifically mentioned in my last post.  Despite putting on my Superwoman costume, I just couldn’t read everything I wanted to, and I will try and catch up on your books later… (or then again, maybe your next books…).

If I’m honest, I’m a bit exhausted after 35 posts in a month! I blog because I love it, but I will never, ever run three posts a day again, like I did last Monday – and like I’m doing today! In fact, I’ll try and avoid running two a day in future. Do you realise how old I am? And that I’m meant to be retired?!

“So Anne, what’s coming up in August?”

Yes, OK, we do start off at breakneck speed again – but only until 9th August. I’m then taking a break until 17th August, when I hope to have something rather exciting for you. 

During the break, I will be moving my entire blog to WordPress, and to its own domain at www.beinganne.com (nothing to see yet!). It’ll be so wonderful to get away from people who insist on adding “reading” to my blog name because it’s the only URL I could get on Blogger. And I’m looking forward immensely to playing with the design, to give everything a simplified (and non-purple) layout – and to have the tools and space to improve the layout of the features I really enjoy running. 

So I won’t be lying back in a deckchair while I’m not blogging – I’ll be making sure I’m totally comfy with my new site and platform before I relaunch. Don’t worry, you won’t have any difficulty finding me again – I’ll make absolutely sure of that… 

So, until then, what’s happening on Being Anne? Nothing tomorrow – and that’s deliberate, I need a day for other things! 

Two tours on Wednesday 3rd:

Two tours on Thursday 4th:

There’s a feature on Friday 5th (still waiting for some content), and I hope I’ll have some more reviews for you on both Friday and (maybe) Saturday…

Another tour on Sunday 7th, a tour on Monday 8th…

and a feature with review of the exciting new thriller by Sam Carrington, Saving Sophie…

And two more tours on Tuesday (9th)…

Then that’s it for a little while. I’ll still be reading – oh yes, of course I’ll be reading – or how will I fill the blog when I return? I’ve made a lot of reviewing promises for August – including some carried over from July – and I really hope to be able to keep them all. And I’m so looking forward to it…