2010 Metrics
BookLove:
2010 Word Count (Reviews): 35,793
Books Read: 104
(Live reviews are linked where applicable)
January
1. Trail of Madness by Zoe E. Whitten
5. Elphame’s Choice by PC Cast
6. The Haunting of Sam Cabot by Mark Edward Hall
7. Skull Full of Kisses by Michael West
February
8. Writers Workshop of Horror, edited by Michael Knost
9. U.S. Army Zombie Combat Skills
10. Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
11. Demon Possessed by Stacia Kane
12. Under by Bradd Quinn
15. Strange Magic by Gord Rollo
16. Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs
17. Seven Times a Woman by Sara M. Harvey (beta’d)
18. Slaughter by Marcus F. Griffin
19. Donny’s Day by Brendon Brentson
March
20. P&P&Z: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith
21. Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep by Liz Kessler
25. Phoenix and the Darkness of Wolves by Shane Jiraiya Cummings
26. Jason Dark #1: Demon’s Night by Guido Henkel
27. Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
28. Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder
29. Welcome to River Street by Amy Levy (beta’d)
30. Jason Dark #2: Theater of Vampires by Guido Henkel
31. Jason Dark #3: Ghosts Templar by Guido Henkel
33. Secrets of Droon #27: The Chariot of Queen Zara
April
34. Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ocklerbb
36. My Soul to Save by Rachel Vincent
39. Of Wolf and Man by Christopher Fulbright
40. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
41. Beautiful Dead: Jonas by Eden Maguire
May
42. Silver Kiss by Naomi Clark
43. The Trouble With Tink by Kiki Thorne
44. Valley of the Dead by Kim Paffenroth
45. Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane
47. Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews
48. Unholy Magic by Stacia Kane
49. Animythical Tales by Sarah Totton
June
50. Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs
51. Murky Depths #9
52. Jars in the Cellar by Lee Clark Zumpe
53. Better Off Alone by Y Sfetsos
54. City of Ghosts by Stacia Kane
55. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
56. My So-Called Death by Stacey Jay
57. Apex May 2010
58. Reader’s Digest Houseplants
59. Apex June 2010
60. Polluto #3
July
61. A Rush of Wings by Adrian Phoenix
62. Little Women and Werewolves by Louisa May Alcott and Porter Grand
63. Monsters: And Investigator’s Guide to Magical Beings by John Michael Greer
65. The Witching Hour by Ann Rice
66. Scent of the Wolf by Tracy Jones
67. Tales of Madness by William Ollie
69. Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
August
70. Troglodyte Rose by Adam Lowe
71. Yaccub’s Curse by Wrath James White
72. Through the Veil by Shiloh Walker
74. Veil of shadows by Shiloh Walker
75. In the Closet, Under the Bed by Lee Thomas
September
80. Apex, July 2010
82. Zen of Zombie by Scott Kenemore
October
83. So Now You’re a Zombie by John Austin
85. Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary
86. Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews
87. Beck and the Great Berry Battle
88. A Clockwork Vampire by Karen Koehler
November
90. How To Eat Fried Furries by Nicole Cushing
91. King Maker by Maurice Broaddus
92. Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris
93. The New Dead, ed by Christopher Golden
94. Divine by Mistake by P.C. Cast
December
95. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
97. The Stepsister Scheme by Jim C. Hines
99. The Mermaid’s Madness by Jim C. Hines
100. Red Hood’s Revenge by Jim C. Hines
101. Teen Titans #1: A Kid’s Game
103. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
104. Captain Underpants: The Amazing Captain Underpants Collector’s Edition (#1) by Dav Pilky
Fiction:
The truth here is, I sort of lost count. Between a computer crash and wipe this summer and a shift in the way I approach my writing career I’ve just stopped keeping track of my number of subs and rejects and whatnot. It doesn’t help that I trunked a number of stories, I got a day job and forgot to keep submitting shorts and that my primary focus (not on purpose, it just ended up that way) has been on edits and rewrites, which does all kinds of things to word count metrics. There’s just no real good way to keep track of these things once you’re past the first draft since you could add a hundred words, but also cut ninety modifiers without really noticing.
But 2010 has been one of my most successful years yet. I’ve been published better, noticed more and even managed to stay in the black (fiscally speaking) after attending cons. Writing completely paid for my trip to WFC this year, plus some. And that, in my book, scores very high on the success meter.
Fiction Word Count (a guess): 98,562
Sales/Publications:
- What Was Once a Man, Horror Library volume 4, October 2010
- Meat World, Dark Futures: Tales of Dystopian SF
- Silver Veins, Expanded Horizons, February 2010
- Men in the Moon, 9 (Ennea) Issue #505 (Greece)
- Men in the Moon, as part of the Monster Librarian Werewolf Month, July 2010
Bonus:
First books bought in 2011:
Winter Girls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Highborn by Yvonne Navarro
Captain Under Pants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
Congrats on a great 2010 and on getting a jump on your 2011 reading. You’re a true inspiration!