Good Stuff

I seem to spend most of my time here either reviewing or having a moan, so I thought I'd share today a couple of nice things that have happened to me recently in my life as a reviewer/blogger.


Firstly, I was chuffed to bits to discover I've had a book dedicated to me.  LA Witt has dedicated the third book in her Changing Plans series, On the List, to me!  How exciting!  Apparently it was my badgering for more which led to the book being written.  Anyway this means that you all have to buy the book now so you can read the dedication :P.  It's HERE.  Actually you should read it anyway because the whole series is very good.

On a side note, I was telling hub about this and enthusing that it's the first time that an author had dedicated a book to me, when he pointed out that it wasn't because he'd dedicated his PhD thesis to me.  So I said (probably rather impolitically) that it was the first book that more than 3 people would read that I had dedicated to me.  *Ahem*  Apparently people read hub's thesis all the time, so I was wrong there.



Secondly, I had a really lovely review for Tea and Crumpet on Goodreads.  We've had lots of good reviews in general which is brilliant because we want to sell lots of copies, but this particular review was from Val at Obsidian Bookshelf who I respect tremendously as a reviewer.  In the review she has my little story as one of her favourites.  EVEN BETTER was the fact that she didn't even realise it was written by me!  So she wasn't just being kind to me.  This is what she said:

Sweet Temptation by Jennie Caldwell is a beautiful, subtle piece that meshes Anglican faith and gay sexual orientation into a single, compatible epiphany.

Honestly, it made my day.  If you haven't bought the Tea and Crumpet anthology yet, it's HERE.


So there you go.  Two things that have brightened my life in the last couple of weeks.  Do you have any to share?