Category Archives: Announcement

Before I get to the announcement, I wanted to give everyone a head’s up the Winning Wednesday eBook Giveaway and Saturday Series Spotlight & Giveaway will be on hiatus next week and possibly the week after. I am having shoulder and carpal tunnel surgery next Monday (March 7th), so I’ll be taking it easy for the next week or two.

After a lot of thought, I am making a few changes at Book Reviews & More by Kathy.

The best way to sum things up: I am tired. I’m still recovering from my unexpected illness and surgery in January. Now I’m facing a long recovery from shoulder surgery. My energy levels are up and down because of the autoimmune disease I have. Some days, I don’t feel like reading (gasp!) and I just don’t really want to do anything other than stream a show. Other days, I just want to read a book and not write a review.

So, here are the changes that will take affect March 1st:

1. I will be posting four reviews a week for the next several months.

2. I am not going to do blog tours any longer (except the few I already have scheduled). I am instead going to feature books for the following themes: Mystery Monday, Teen Tuesday, Thrifty Thursday and Friday Feature.

3. I will continue with the Winning Wednesday eBook Giveaway. However, some weeks may only have two selections-one traditional romance and one gay romance. I sometimes struggle to find two regular romances to give away each week. It is also getting harder and harder to find gay romances that are not in Kindle Unlimited.

4. I am continuing the Saturday giveaway but I am changing it to the Saturday Spotlight Giveaway. I will attempt to spotlight series, but again, it has become difficult to find series to highlight each week for the giveaway. I will continue to alternate the giveaways between gay couples and man/woman couples.

5. The Sunday post will remain The Week Ahead.

6. The monthly Reading Challenge will continue.

Book Reviews & More by Kathy has been around for ten and a half years and I love what I do. So while I’m reducing my workload, I don’t plan to shut down my website any time soon.

Thank you so sticking with me and I hope you’ll continue to stop by despite the upcoming changes.

First, thank you for all of your kind words. It means the world to me.

Second, I am still in the hospital. But I should be getting out tomorrow after surgery. I’ll be minus part of my toe but I am going to be just fine. I am counting my blessings we caught the bone infection before it spread.

I will take the rest of the week off and post The Week Ahead on Sunday.

Take care!

Happy New Year!

I hope your plans weren’t derailed like mine were. I am in the hospital with a bone infection, so I won’t be posting anything new until I am discharged some time next week.

Wishing you and your family the happiest of Holidays and a wonderful New Year!

Hi, Kathy here with a few of updates.

Y’all might have noticed that I don’t always post the reviews that I have scheduled in The Week Ahead. While I have been fortunate enough to avoid COVID, I do have an autoimmune disease that was well controlled for the past several years. Unfortunately, for the past couple of years, treatment has not been as effective since I am trying difficult medications to find one that works. I have days where I struggle to read so I have gotten behind on my reviews. I am working hard to get back on track but due to various reasons, I have not yet gotten there. So until I am able to get caught up, I am not going to assign a date for the upcoming week’s reviews. I will list them in the order I plan for them to post, but I might have to move a review or two to the following week.

Because I am so far behind on reviews, I do not usually have time to read the book I have selected for the monthly Reading Challenge. I will still post the monthly challenge theme and the discussion post, but until I am caught up with my reviews, I will most likely not meet my monthly challenges 🙁 .

Another area where I have struggled in recent months is finding books for the Winning Wednesday eBook Giveaway. While I will continue to strive to give away three books each week, I might only have two books instead of the usual three. Because so many authors now self-publish their books through Kindle Unlimited, there are some weeks where I cannot always find three books book for the weekly contest. LGBTQ books are becoming especially difficult to find. While I will continue to make every attempt to give away three books each week, I am giving a head’s up that might not always be possible.

Please check The Week Ahead every week to check out what reviews I plan to post and the books I will be giving away.

Thank you for your understanding!

For the past two days (Wednesday & Thursday), there have been issues with the daily newsletter going out to all subscribers. While I work to uncover the problem, the only work around I have is to resend the newsletter to everyone. A very small number of subscribers have unfortunately received duplicate emails. Please accept my apologies for clogging up your inbox. I have changed the time the newsletter is emailed so hopefully this will resolve the problem. Look for the newsletter to hit your inbox between 7 AM-9 AM Mountain Time.

Thank you for your patience while I attempt to score a win over technology!