Okay so this wasn't supposed to happen

[asphaltcowgrrl]

GUYS HELP.

Netgalley is an addiction as well as an impulse. And I might just need an intervention.

Generally, I can resist the urge to request every book that they email me about. But then, there are times when I cannot say no. On the bright side, I'm usually turned down for those impulse clicks. Although my feedback rate is above where they want it (83% currently, but will go up soon as I have one ready to review and one almost finished), often I don't have enough of a blog following to get the big name publishers to take a chance. Which, honestly, is okay. I see too many bloggers with 19 ARCS on their Netgalley shelf and no time to read them. I don't want that.

So, when an email for this book landed in my inbox, I clicked.



I clicked so fast, guys, I think I have push button finger now. And HOLY MOTHER OF COWBOYS HARLEQUIN FREAKING APPROVED IT. Like, almost instantly. I swear, I was expecting to wait four weeks and then get a rejection notice. I'd cry if they put me on auto-approve because SO MANY BOOKS. And despite the bad rep HQN gets sometimes, their MIRA line has some amazing thrillers.

So, what I have pending at the moment:

Like Never and Always by Ann Aguirre - FINISHED waiting for review

A Scandal in Scarlet by Vicki Delany - NEARLY DONE. I love this series so I should finish it in the next couple days

Little Darlings by Melanie Golding - publishes 5/10/19 so I have a minute or two to get this one done.

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen - publishes 1/8/19 so I have time on this, too. It's next up though because it's been on my shelf the longest

Luck of the Draw by B. J. Daniels - this you know about but it doesn't release until 5/21/19 so my impulse click wasn't as bad as it could have been.

So, not too bad considering one is done and the other is close.

Anyway, back to your lives. I couldn't help but scream about this and, since literally no one in my real life cares, you get stuck with it. Now, I need to finish spending all of my boss' money.

Comments

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

LOL. You do make me laugh. I do wish I blogged about books in order to join the team, but then... how would I read all the books? So, 'yeah, nah', as we say in NZ, not really a good idea for me.

On the other hand, I just got an email to tell me I can pick a book up at the library, and I'm thinking 'what book is this; I don't remember ordering one' as they usually come through fairly quickly and my brain actually remembers I ordered one. Thinking a bit longer made me remember I ordered the first in The Expanse series (after watching as much of the show as they had available on Netflix), but I was like #31 in the queue, so at the time I knew I'd have to wait a while, and promptly forgot all about it. Now I'm excited to go pick it up, but having the brain of a very small bear, I completely forgot yesterday afternoon. Thus I have now put a reminder on my phone so I don't forget again tonight after work!

[kaige68.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE AWESOME!!!

[sharpiesgal.livejournal.com]

That's the same redhead cowboy model I told you about last week....lol

[severina2001.livejournal.com]

Where do you publish the reviews you write?

I had never heard of NetGalley and never knew how people got ARCS before I started reading your posts. It's really interesting.