We’re nearly done with the 6th month of the year and that means it’s time for the Mid-Year Freak Out Tag again! Check out my responses from last year here and look for a video version of this tag on YouTube. 1. The Best Book I’ve Read So Far in 2021 The Darkness Outside Usby…
I am writing this blog post as a companion for a YouTube video but I would still love to get some discussion going here on the blog around this topic as well. Next month in June will be one year since Rowling’s big essay that doubled (tripled? quadrupled?) down on all of her beliefs and…
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If you’ve been hanging around my blog much you’ve probably noticed that some of the tour stops I host come from Storytellers on Tour. They’re a great small tour company that got started last year, and in preparation for 2021 they introduced a new perk for hosts: The Ultimate Tour Experience. If you’re a bookish…
Trinity at Portable Magic tagged me to do the Small Booktuber tag, so that’ll be this week’s bookish video on my channel over at Jenna Gets Creative. Thanks for tagging me! I’m releasing the blog post format as my Sunday post because I don’t have any tours this weekend, but I do also make sure…
For the first time in ages and ages, I’m going to answer this week’s Top 5 Saturday question: Top 5 Books with Love Triangles I Want to Read. This is a book blogger meme created and maintained by Devouring Books since 2018. One of these days I’m finally going to read The Selection by Kiera…
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Hey Patrick Rothfuss / The Name of the Wind fans! One of the YouTube channels I follow, SuperCarlinBrothers, will be releasing a series of bonus videos in April to serve as a book club discussion on the current novels and novellas in the King Killer world. Start your re-reads now and make sure you’re subscribed…
It’s time to think of another booktube topic for Monday’s video and while I have now done my re-read (and first listen) of The Night Circus and could just finally do that video, I never post a booktube video without a companion blog post before it or on the same day, and I don’t want…
Some readers will push through any book they start no matter how they feel about it, whether it’s because they’re hoping the book will redeem itself in the end or they’re just too stubborn to stop, but I am not one of those readers. I’ll push through books that aren’t going to be a 4…
Whenever Monday’s coming up and I don’t have a topic for my Monday book topic videos, I go hunting for tags. This time I found the I Should Have Read That Book Tag on One More Book and it’s a unique tag unlike anything I’ve done before, so let’s do it! I followed the grape…
Hey there! My name is Jenna, and I’ve been hosting bookish blog tour stops here on Westveil Publishing since the summer of 2020. Beyond that, I have nearly two decades of experience in web development and social media outreach behind me, and I’m a life-long bookworm. I’d like to share my thoughts on the good…
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Last month YouTuber Merphy Napier ran through her bookish preferences and asked us for ours. I took note so I could give my answers in a video of my own, so here we are in the companion blog post answering Merphy’s questions. Video version of my answers here! 1. Which perspective is your favourite, first-person…
I’ve mentioned here and there that when I dove headlong into book blog tours back in the fall I made the mistake of a) selecting the “any date is fine” option for everything, even if I was volunteering to review, and b) not recording my tour reviews, my NetGalley ARCs, and my other-source review commitments…
Have you read To Sleep in a Sea of Stars yet? I got to experience this amazing 5-star read as an ARC last summer and I’ve been singing its praises ever since! If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it, and I can attest that the audiobook is great! If you have read it,…
The “What Cats Do” book tag is a typical themed book tag based around our feline overlords and their habits, and it was created by Kate at MeltingPotsandOtherCalamities. I found it on The Reading Addict‘s blog, so I’m doing it! Please note that this post contains affiliate links, which means there is no additional cost…
On January 18th Neil Gaiman himself tweeted an announcement that several of his books will be getting new covers throughout 2021, and the tweet was accompanied by a slideshow video preview of minimalist watercolour designs by Henry Sene Yee on mockups of his books. Rumour has it there are actually multiple sets of special releases…
Back in the fall, I wrote an article here on the block about Patrick Rothfuss, the actions of his editor over the summer, and the fandom’s speculation about book three. It blew up in recent weeks, and I can only assume that’s because Rothfuss has been more amiable and open about The Doors of Stone…
The Resolutions Book Tag was created quite recently by Mikaela Reads (@ReadsMikaela) and I was tagged by Lucy Rambles (@LucyRambles). I’m putting out my responses to this tag here on the blog on Sunday January 17th and will be featuring it as my weekly bookish video on the YouTube channel on Monday. I’m going to…
This is a companion post to my YouTube video for Monday January 11, 2021, because I vow to always have a companion post to accompany my videos for those who would prefer to read them, and this week is neither a review, a previously written article, or a tag. Let’s talk about some of the…
Long and Short Reviews has issued a weekly challenge prompt for bookish bloggers to be completed on Wednesday every week in 2021. I actually found out about this one late in 2020, but the final Wednesday of December was left off the prompt list and that’s where I was going to have the space to…
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Merry Christmas, everyone! Whatever you celebrate this time of year, I hope you’re safe and able to celebrate with those you love in some way, even if it’s just a phone or Zoom call. We’re going to do a First Lines Friday post with my favourite Christmas book, and then I’ll tell you how this…
