I have signed up for two reading challenges for this year – sort-of a more interesting form of New Year’s Resolution, I suppose, although I do not imagine that it will be especially hard for me to keep reading books!

But before that, some news about Scenes from a Life. Kindle copies are starting to sell nicely now, and – at least for those regions where this applies – I have enrolled the book in Amazon’s Matchbook programme. This means that anyone who buys the soft-cover print copy of the book can, for a mere $0.99, get the kindle copy as well. Fantastic… but not yet globally available.

I have also started drafting out the next novel in the series… more news when my ideas about that are a little bit more settled.

So, Reading Challenges. I decided to sign up for two – one specifically on historical fiction, and a more general one. The trend today seems to be that you pick cool names for different levels of the challenge, which is fine by me. So the two are:

1. Historical Tapestry 2014 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge – I went for the Ancient History (25 books) level, as opposed to Medieval (15 books) or Prehistoric (50+ books)
2. The Mad Reviewer Reading and Reviewing Challenge 2014 – I went for the Slightly Sane Reviewer (26 books) level, as opposed to Sane (12 books) or Crazy (52 books). There’s even a Mad Reviewer level calling for 104 books in one year. Phew.

Of course, some books can neatly be caught in both challenges 🙂 which should help. To date I have read and reviewed 1 book this year (other reviews in 2014 were for books read last year), plus have one that is read and awaiting review, and one that is in progress.