Celebrate the small things

Celebrate the Small Things is a Friday blog hop where we share things, big or small, during that week. 

Hosts: Lexa Cain, Writing Off The Edge, and Kidbits.

Celebrations...

My writing schedule is going well! I've been getting up earlier, before the rest of the house wakes. It's strange because, I used to write late at night, but these early mornings, my head seems a lot more focused.

My son's girlfriend gave me these bookmarks. I think they're beautiful!

Express Yourself: novel grabby hands

Express Yourself is the weekly blog hop where Dani @Entertaining Interests and I ask a question or discuss a topic for other bloggers to share and learn more about each other.

Feb. 1-5: What novel are you most excited to get your hands on?

And I Darken by Kiersten White
Expected publication: June 28th 2016 by Delacorte Press

Blurb:
No one expects a princess to be brutal. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the key to survival. She and Radu are doomed to act as pawns in a vicious game, an unseen sword hovering over their every move. For the lineage that makes them special also makes them targets.

Lada despises the Ottomans and bides her time, planning her vengeance for the day when she can return to Wallachia and claim her birthright. Radu longs only for a place where he feels safe. And when they meet Mehmed, the defiant and lonely son of the sultan, who’s expected to rule a nation, Radu feels that he’s made a true friend—and Lada wonders if she’s finally found someone worthy of her passion.

But Mehmed is heir to the very empire that Lada has sworn to fight against—and that Radu now considers home. Together, Lada, Radu, and Mehmed form a toxic triangle that strains the bonds of love and loyalty to the breaking point.