2017: A Year in Review

I just read 2016’s recap and ugh. Emotional. I spent a lot of 2016 in a very dark place; by the end of the year, I was seeing things in a different light after a lot of self-reflection, but it’s still really painful to read. For 2017, I’m doing something different: I’m going to focus on the good parts of the year and do a highlights/best of. 2017 wasn’t all sunshine and roses by any means. A lot of the things I struggled with in 2016 carried into 2017, but I want to focus on the good parts. The things - and the people - who made me happy and made it a memorable year. So here we go!

My Mum and The Littles
Every single day spent with my mum is a day I consider myself truly blessed. She’s not only an amazing mother, she’s the best friend a girl could ask for. We have so much fun living together, and even the most mundane task (like grocery shopping and hauling tons of bags home on the bus - blech) can turn into an adventure.

Then there’s the Littles (my youngest niece and nephew, 4 and 7 respectively). They brought so much joy and laughter to our lives in 2017, as they’ve done since the day they were born. Those two tiny humans are so incredibly intelligent, creative, imaginative, hilarious, and sweet. I cherish every snuggle, every funny/sweet/ridiculously smart thing they say, and every memory we make together. I’m so lucky I get to spent so many days with them drawing and colouring, snuggling, playing games, watching movies, and going on adventures around our neighbourhood.

Writing
In 2016’s recap, I wrote this: “Professionally, 2016 was a joke. All the crap going on in my life took up so much time and energy at the beginning of the year, I basically had to put my career on hold.” I wish I could say I spent 2017 writing my heart out, but there were still quite a few distractions, and my lack of motivation carried through the year. BUT...I did write a Christmas novella at the beginning of the year, which I published in November, and I finished writing the romantic comedy I started writing the year before. That feels like a huge accomplishment, especially considering I felt like such a failure after 2016.

Mistletoe Kiss was the first new book I’d published in two whole years, and the response to it was better than I could have hoped for. I talked about how I was afraid people had forgotten me and I had become irrelevant in the publishing game, but the support I received was overwhelming (in the best way possible). I owe a lot of this to the bookstagram community, and a good chunk of my sales I owe to my childhood best friend, author Athena Wright, who mentioned the book in one of her newsletters, which prompted dozens of people to buy it. (*insert me crying like a baby*) I have a lot of writing plans for 2018, and I sincerely hope I get such an enthusiastic response for those projects as well!


Travel
I didn’t make it too far from home this year, but I did take an amazing trip to Toronto with my friend Krista. We got to explore Cabbagetown (a gorgeous part of Toronto I’d never seen before), and we shopped at the Eaton Centre and Curiosa (the second being somewhere I wanted to go from the moment I heard about it but figured I’d never actually get to go...also, I still have to write about our experience and what we bought there. I mean it's only been, like, two and a half months since we visited *facepalm*). The ultimate highlight of that trip: attending Jacquelyn Middleton’s launch party for her sophomore novel London, Can You Wait? Held at the Wickson Social, Jackie’s party exceeded all my expectations. Amazing food and drink, fun people, and meeting Jackie in personal after a year of being friends online was one of the high points of 2017. Plus it was great to spend two whole days with Krista since we didn’t get to see each other much last year.

Blog Highlights
Some of my most popular posts in 2017:
Writing and Publishing: 
☆5 Things I’ve Learned in 5 Years of Publishing
☆6 Mistakes Authors Make and How to Avoid Them
☆7 Things Every Author Should Have on Their Website 
☆Instagram for Authors: Everything Authors Need to Know About Using Instagram
☆Everything Authors Need to Know About Beta Readers
☆5 Tips for Surviving NaNoWriMo

Book Recommendation Posts:
☆Books Set in England
☆Books Set in France
☆Books Set in Italy
☆LGBTQ+ Books
☆Book Recommendations for Romance Lovers

All the Rest 
☆I spent some super fun days with my friend JaimeKristal while she was home between travels. She arrived back in town in November 2016 after 2 years of living in London, and left again in August 2017, this time for 2 years in Ireland. In the months we had together, we went to a Harry Potter event at Chapters, saw a local production of Pride and Prejudice, had a fancy tea party, watched the Canada Day fireworks by the bay, and spent hours chatting, watching movies, and shopping (mostly for books and Funko Pops, naturally). I enjoyed my time with her so much and was sad to see her go, especially since I’d initially hoped to go with her. It puts a lump in my throat just thinking about it, so I won’t get into it again, but I talked all about it in a post called Pity Party: Table of One. This wasn’t an easy post to write, but the response I got to it made me feel so much better, and the embarrassment and shame I felt over potentially coming across as a whiner was completely washed away by the support I got.

☆I saw my college best friend Missy for the first time in almost ten years. We spent the day with our mums and her three kids at the park. It was an unexpectedly emotional experience seeing her again after so long, and we unpacked a lot of baggage and reminisced about our college days, plus caught up on a lot of current news.

☆I read a lot of great books in 2017. Added several new favourite books to my shelves, and discovered new authors. I hit my GoodReads goal of 85 books read in 2017 (completed this goal 2 hours before midnight on the 31st!). If you’re looking for some recommendations to kick off 2018, I shared my 17 favourite books of 2017 as my last post of the year.

☆Bookstagram continued to be a great source of pleasure for me. I’ve made so many friends in that community, and I love that I get to share my passion for books there, and that I can be my nerdy self. It’s also been an absolute joy to continue being a rep for NerdyGrlDesigns (who’s in the process of moving from an Etsy shop to a standalone webite, which is why I linked her Instagram rather than the shop; you can keep an eye out there for updates) and seeing Melisa branch out and turn her business into a thriving one, plus she created a Society6 shop with her designs. I also co-hosted my first ever photo challenge in December with my wonderful friend Caryn, which exceeded all my hopes and expectations. We had so much fun, we’re hosting another challenge for January. I also had a lot of fun with my personal/author/blog Instagram in 2017. I posted there more consistently and created more of a focus for my feed. I did most of this with the help of Helene Sula’s blog, Instagram, and her course Instagram for Success. Her tips and advice helped me more than double my following on my personal account, and I’m continuing to grow and learn and improve slowly but surely, as well as apply those things to my bookstagram account. Let me just say, one thing that was a massive game changer for me: Lightroom.

☆I changed the direction of this blog from a book blog to a more general blog...but still with an emphasis on books! I know some people say having a niche is important and there are all these things you ‘should and shouldn’t do’ on your blog, but you know what? Screw that. I want to talk about what I want to talk about. I want to help other writers (especially those who choose to self-publish like me), I want to gush about books, I want to talk about travel and photography and life, so that’s exactly what I’m going to do. I basically just want to be my nerdy, quirky self, and hope I find other nerdy, quirky people who will appreciate what I have to say.

So, that’s my 2017 in a nutshell - the good parts, at least. It was a year of ups and downs, as most years are, but it was certainly better than 2016! I have a lot planned for 2018, which I’ll talk about in an upcoming post. Watch for that soon!

What were some of the highlights for you in 2017? Did you travel? Read some great books? Start a new hobby? Have great things happen in your personal life? I’d love to know! Tell me in the comments below, and if you posted a yearly recap, feel free to leave a link so I can check it out. Wishing you a wonderful 2018 full of laughter, light, hope, and love.

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Previous Yearly Recaps:
☆2016: A Year in Review
☆Looking Back on 2015
☆Reflecting on 2014 and Looking at the Year Ahead 
☆2012: A Year in Review
☆2010: A Year in Review

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Jacquelyn Middleton’s London, Can You Wait? Book Launch in Toronto

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It’s been a little over a month since Jacquelyn Middleton’s launch party for London, Can You Wait? and I’m finally getting around to writing about it. Between real life stuff (including what seems to be a fun new problem with chronic headaches that I’m getting checked by my doctor today), and launching my own book, I just haven’t had time for blogging. But...better late than never, right?

I met Jacquelyn on Instagram shortly after she released her debut novel, London Belongs to Me. I always hoped to meet her someday, especially since she only lives a couple hours from me, so I was thrilled when ‘someday’ turned out to be much sooner than expected. Getting invited to Jacquelyn's launch party for London, Can You Wait? was exciting enough, but I didn’t actually expect to be able to go since I don’t drive and my anxiety prevents me from travelling solo. Enter my friend Krista, a proposition for a mid-week mini vacation to the city, and an invitation to what promised to be an epic party, and things came together perfectly.

And it really was an epic party. Held in the Nest (a very cool, intimate party room) of the Wickson Social, the launch was the best party I’ve ever been to. Before we went, Krista and I joked about getting to attend a ‘grown-up party’; despite both of us being close to our mid-thirties, neither of us truly feels like ‘proper adults’. The few parties I attend or host usually involve little kids, not chic adults in stylish surroundings, with free-flowing booze and delicious food. But that’s exactly what Jacquelyn’s launch party was.

Meeting Jackie was definitely the highlight of the night. She’s so fun and bubbly and sweet. There was a lot of squeeing and giggling and talking about books and it was just perfection. We were there to celebrate her and her books, so what I didn’t expect was for her to gush over me. She told anyone who came near us about my bookstagram pics of London Belongs to Me and London, Can You Wait?, even whipping out her phone a few times to show people my pictures. I’m not used to people gushing about me or singing my praises, so it was unexpected and wonderful!

Photo by Amy Buck Photography

Besides meeting Jaquelyn, we also got to meet and chat with her husband and several of her friends. I have major social anxiety and I’m terrible at small talk (and talking to strangers in general), but everyone was so welcoming and lovely, and I was actually really proud of myself for being able to carry on conversations. It didn’t hurt that a lot of said conversations included topics like writing, books, and fangirling over celebrities.

Then there was the food. Oh. My. God. The food. Mini fish and chips, beef sliders, mushroom and scallions on crisp bread, puff pastry with cheddar, and much more. There was also an open bar, so Krista and I both tried a cider, and then she tried an ameretto sour while I had a rum and coke. Then there was dessert! Jacquelyn had a table of beautiful chocolate sprinkle cupcakes from Dlish Cupcakes, plus platters of cookies and brownies, and at the end of the night, there were mini ice cream pots! On top of all that amazingness, there were also goodie bags, filled with British treats from the book. Did I mention this was the best party ever?

Because Jacquelyn is amazing and generous, she’s allowing me to host a giveaway on Instagram for signed copies of both London Belongs to Me AND London, Can You Wait? I really do love these books so much and I’m constantly pimping them, so I’m thrilled to have the chance to give them away, and I’m so touched by Jacquelyn’s endless generosity and how amazing she is to her friends and fans. Head over to my Instagram to enter the giveaway. It runs from today until next Monday the 4th, and is open internationally.

All the amazing treats in the goodie bags

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London, Can You Wait? ~ Read my review || Buy: Amazon US ~ Canada || Chapters

You can see more pictures in Jacquelyn’s recap of the launch party

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Review: Jewel of the Thames by Angela Misri

Jewel of the Thames by Angela Misri
Series: Portia Adams Adventures #1
Published: March 25th, 2014
Publisher: Fierce Ink Press
254 pages (ebook)
Genre: Young Adult Historic Fiction/Mystery
Acquired this book: Bought
Warning: May contain spoilers
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There’s a new detective at 221 Baker Street

Set against the background of 1930s England, Jewel of the Thames introduces Portia Adams, a budding detective with an interesting — and somewhat mysterious — heritage.

Nineteen-year-old Portia Adams has always been inquisitive. There’s nothing she likes better than working her way through a mystery. When her mother dies, Portia puzzles over why she was left in the care of the extravagant Mrs. Jones but doesn’t have long to dwell on it before she is promptly whisked from Toronto to London by her new guardian. Once there Portia discovers that she has inherited 221 Baker Street — the former offices of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Portia settles into her new home and gets to know her downstairs tenants, including the handsome and charming Brian Dawes. She also finds herself entangled in three cases: the first involving stolen jewelry, the second a sick judge and the final case revolving around a kidnapped child. But the greatest mystery of all is her own. How did she come to inherit this townhouse? And why did her mother keep her heritage from her? Portia has a feeling Mrs. Jones knows more than she is letting on. In fact, she thinks her new guardian may be the biggest clue of all.

If you regularly visit my blog, read my reviews, or follow me on social media, you’ll know I love all things Sherlock. I’ll read any book with a Sherlockian premise, and luckily I’ve enjoyed all the ones I’ve read, including Angela Misri's debut, Jewel of the Thames.

What makes Jewel of the Thames so wonderfully different is that it’s not a retelling of the original Holmes stories. 19-year-old Portia discovers she’s inherited the famed 221 Baker Street, so she moves from Toronto to London to live there. Her mother’s death has left her on her own except for a mysterious new guardian who seems intent on keeping Portia’s heritage a secret.

Portia is an interesting combination of Watson and Holmes - clever, intuitive, and observant - so she fits in well in their former home and office. I enjoyed the unique premise in a familiar setting, and thought the period - 1930s London - was a nice touch. Portia has to fight to be taken seriously a lot of the time, between her age and her gender, and I liked that she stood her ground and used her intelligence to overcome problems. The mysteries she helped solve were all interesting, as was the on-going mystery of Portia’s extended family and why she had inherited 221 Baker Street.

I could easily see Jewel of the Thames as a period drama on the BBC. The mysteries are well thought out, the plot and characters were interesting, and there's a lot of potential for further stories and character growth. Between that and the fantastic twist at the end, I'm eager to read the next book, Thrice Burned.

Have you read Jewel of the Thames? What did you think? If you haven't read it, do you plan to? Do you enjoy Sherlockian stories?

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5 Days of Angel Island Day 2: Pictures Inspired by the Series

This week is the release of The Complete Angel Island Series, a box set that includes all three of my Angel Island companion novels, Waiting for the Storm, After the Storm, and Take Them by Storm. For this week only you can get the set for just $2.99 - that's all three books for the price of one! If you're curious about the series and haven't started it yet, or if you've read one but not the other two, now would be a great time to give them a try!

To celebrate the release of the box set, I'm dedicating this week to posts about the series. Yesterday I kicked things off with fun facts about the series and today I'm sharing pictures inspired by the books.

 

Waiting for the Storm starts out in Toronto, with Charlotte at her mother's funeral. Soon after, she, her dad, and her sister leave for Angel Island. The family stops in Kingston before taking the ferry, and they eat at an Irish pub and restaurant called Tir Nan Og, which is a real place. It's beautiful inside and makes you feel like you've been transported to Ireland, so it's one of my favourite places. Plus it's supposedly haunted. ;-)

This is the Wolfe Island ferry, but it's basically the type of ferry Charlotte and her family would take to get back and forth from the mainland to the island.

View from the ferry

 

Charlotte and her family are from Toronto. At one point in Waiting for the Storm, she and Ezra go to Toronto so Charlotte can check on their house. She tells Ezra she's never been up in the CN Tower, and he says they should do it some day...and then decides 'someday' should be that day, so they go up...

 

...And after a lot of convincing, Ezra gets Charlotte onto the glass floor at the top. Living a couple hours away from Toronto, I've seen the CN Tower my whole life, but I didn't go up until the year I wrote Waiting for the Storm. It took me forever to work up the courage to get on the glass floor. It was terrifying and exhilarating, and I was so proud of myself. Charlotte has anxiety, so this was a big moment for her in the book, one I loved writing and still love reading.

Charlotte, Ella, and Sadie on the beach. (Actually me and a couple friends.)

This is on Amherst Island. I was standing inside the cemetery where some of my ancestors are buried.

River's last name is Maracle. Since I live a few minutes outside the reserve, Maracle is a common name in this area. This was a huge mural on the wall opposite the library. I got a picture of it just in time a year or two ago - it was gone soon after.

A tower of rocks in a field in Tyendinaga, the Mohawk reserve where River is from

A macaron *insert heart eyes and drooly face here* Sadie's friend Jo in Take Them by Storm is French and loves macarons. It's a special little thing she and Sadie share.

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2013 Ontario Blogger Meetup

Well, two and a half weeks later and I’m finally making time to talk about The Ontario Blogger Meetup, which happened November 2nd. I’ve been swamped with NaNoWriMo, promoting my new book, and a bunch of other things, so the recap kept getting put on the back burner. Oops!

This year was the third annual blogger meetup. I was invited to the first one, but I had no way to get to Toronto, so I wasn’t able to go. The same thing happened last year, but I was determined I would find a way to go this year. As soon as I found out tickets would be going on sale in August, I posted on Facebook, tagged my local blogger friends, and was able to get a ride with Kathy from I Write, I Read, I Review, who lives just half an hour away from me, and who I’ve known through blogging for over two years.

 

Kathy and I were two of the first guests to show up at Watermark Irish Pub in Toronto. I was glad we were early, because I hate walking into a room full of people, plus we got to have our choice of seats. We got settled, started organizing our books for trade, and then started mingling as people came in.

Kathy and me

There were a lot of people I didn’t know, but there were some familiar faces mixed in, people I was thrilled to finally meet in person, like Rachelia from Bookish Comforts, Ashley from Book Labyrinth, Kaley from Books, Etc, Meaghan from Feeling a Little Bookish, and Giselle from Book Nerd. There were also people I knew by name from Twitter, so it was fun to finally put faces to names.

Me and Rachelia

 Once tickets went on sale in the summer, a list was put up for people to swap and give away books. I’d been in contact with several people about trading books, and I was glad I had, not only for the books (believe it or not), but also because it gave me a reason to walk around, meet people, and chat. I’m already setting books aside for next year since that was a big reason for me to move around the room, talk to people, ask if they knew where (or who) so-and-so was, etc. 

Kathy and I were lucky enough to get seated at the same table as one of the guest authors, Gail Gallant. I think she asked us more questions than we asked her - she was fascinated with book blogging, and couldn’t believe how many of us there were, and how much we loved to share our love of books. It was a lot of fun to chat with her, and I also ended up getting her book in the goodie bag, so I got her to sign it.

Something else that was a lot of fun and helped with breaking the ice and getting people to mingle was the trivia sheet that was at each place setting. There was a great mixture of bookish questions, and we talked to a few people from our table and other tables about the answers. All the sheets were collected and put in a box and then names were drawn for prizes. Neither Kathy nor I won anything, but it was fun watching people pick their prizes, and it was also a great way to learn more names and blogs. 

The Ontario Blog Squad!

And, I can’t forget to talk about the food, since we got a lovely three-course meal. I had chili, fish and chips, and the most amazing peanut butter brownie cheesecake. It was nice to have a meal since a lot of people came from far away (a little over two hours for me, plus tack on an extra half hour for Kathy), and it gave us a chance to sit down and get to know the people at our table better. 

I have to give huge kudos (and thanks!) to the Ontario Blog Squad for organizing such an incredible event. I’ve been dreaming of this for the last couple years, and it exceeded all my expectations. I can’t wait to go again next year, meet up with old friends, and make more new friends!

All the books I traded for/was given

The contents of my super-awesome goodie bag. Kathy and I weren't going to open ours until we got home, but then we found out we all had a book from one of the two guest authors, so we had to see which one we had so we could get them signed!

You can see each of the books and who I got them from in my video book haul from weekend before last. 

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Canadian Spotlight Month: My Favourite Places in Canada

When I stop and think about it, I haven’t really seen that much of Canada. Canada’s the second largest country in the world, and I’ve only been to 4 of its 10 provinces, and none of the territories. I live in Ontario, and I’ve never been west of Ontario. When it comes right down to it, I guess I haven't even really seen that much of Ontario. It seems like multiple times a week I learn of a place in my own home province that I’d never heard of before, and it hits me: Canada is really freaking huge.

There are a ton of places I love in Canada, and I’ll talk about a few of them, but I want to spotlight Toronto, since it’s the city I know the best and have been to the most.

For years, I hated Toronto. When my dad was diagnosed with cancer in 1992, he was sent to the cancer hospital in Toronto (2 hours west of where I live), and for the next two years, he went back and forth for treatments. At one point, he was there for three whole months. As a kid, Toronto seemed like a really scary place. It was huge, busy, noisy, smelly, and it seemed like every time I turned on the TV or radio, I heard about another shooting or stabbing. To top things off, my dad died in the hospital in Toronto. I never wanted to go back, but unfortunately I didn’t have a choice - living so close, we took school trips there, and eventually I started going for pleasure, and learned to love the city. Nothing will ever erase the memories of the two hellish years spent going back and forth to Toronto, but I’ve made a lot of happy memories there, too.

Why I love Toronto

The CN Tower: I always get ridiculously excited when I see the CN Tower. I don’t know why - I guess it’s just so iconic to me. Last July, after years of visiting Toronto, I finally got to go up in the CN Tower. Being 1,850 feet above Toronto was incredible. It took my sister-in-law and me awhile, but we finally gathered the courage to stand on the glass floor. It was terrifying but amazing.

Events and Concerts: I’ve been to quite a few events and concerts in Toronto. I saw Beauty and the Beast there (that was 11 years ago, and I’d give anything to see it again - it was fantastic), and I’ve seen Stars on Ice a few times (I adore Kurt Browning). I saw The Killers at The Molson Amphitheatre during their first Canadian show. I saw the Backstreet Boys a few years later at the same place. I had a lifelong dream come true in 2008 when I got to see New Kids on the Block during their reunion tour at the Air Canada Centre. The first time I saw U2 (my favourite band) was at the Air Canada Centre, and the third time was at the Rogers Centre (that was July 11th, 2011 - we had General Admission tickets, and spent 12 hours in line to get into the third row - best night ever). I was also lucky enough to see the Harry Potter Exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre a couple years ago - it was a dream come true for this Harry Potter fan, let me tell you! 

Toronto is just a fun place to visit, and there’s something for everyone. Whether you want to go to the beach, shop, eat at a huge selection of great restaurants, check out the nightlife, go to a baseball game at the Rogers Centre, visit the amazing museums (the Royal Ontario Museum is my favourite), get a dose of culture and be transported to another country in any of the many ethnic neighbourhoods (Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, etc), spend a day at Canada’s Wonderland, visit Toronto Zoo, be dazzled by celebs at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, or learn something new at the Ontario Science Centre, there’s an endless variety of activities for people of all ages.

 Other places I love in Canada:

This past April, I talked about why I love Toronto, Kingston, Niagara Falls, and Ottawa in this post during the A to Z Blogging Challenge. 

For this post, I started out writing why I loved each of these places, but then I realize this post would never end, so I’m just going to mention a few and include links for anyone who’s interested in learning more about these places.

Kingston, Ontario 
One thing I will say about Kingston is that if you’re a supernatural enthusiast, Kingston is famous for being haunted (limestone is supposed to increase paranormal activity, because it holds onto residual energy), and the Haunted Walk of Kingston is a lot of fun to do. I did the special Halloween one a few years ago and it was so creepy and fun.

Niagara Falls, Ontario

Ottawa, Ontario

Amherst Island, Ontario

Wolfe Island, Ontario

Quebec City, Quebec

Shediac, New Brunswick

The town where my dad was born and raised. He was the youngest of 16 children, so if you run into a Landry there, chances are I’m related to them somehow! A couple of my uncles and cousins run businesses there, and one of my uncles owns the Centreville Mall downtown. Shediac is the Lobster Capital of the World and they have a giant lobster in Rotary Park where you can pose for pictures. Most people think of Quebec being the only French-speaking province in Canada, but a large portion of New Brunswick is French-speaking, including Shediac.

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Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Cavendish, Prince Edward Island

The place to be for fans of Anne of Green Gables.

These are just some of the many places I love in Canada. I can't wait to visit the rest of the provinces and add to my list!

What's your favourite place in Canada? If you've never been here, where's somewhere you'd like to visit?

 

 

This post has been part of the Canadian Spotlight Month. Click the graphic below to check out the schedule and all things Canadian here at Ramblings of a Daydreamer.