The Questions for the 2016 End of the Year Survey are posted by Jaime @ the Perpetual Page Turner, who created this survey as a personal reflection of her year of bookish wanderings and readings, and never thought it would turn into a book blogosphere yearly event! I am thankful she encourages us all to participate as I would have last year but felt I hadn’t yet sprouted my bookish wings as I have this year!
2015 Reading & Posting Stats:
Number of Re-Reads: 0 | definitely something I should work on resolving!
Number of Classical Fiction: 0 | #epicfail | lest I say more?
Number of Novellas and/or Short Story Collections: 3
2015 was a definitive year where I fell head over heels in love with *shorts!* So much so, one of the collections wasn’t able to be read/reviewed by year’s end (‘Scarecrow’) and it’s closely followed by two more from World Weaver Presses *awesome!* releases: ‘Frozen Fairy Tales’ and ‘Far Orbit’!! I was unexpectedly delayed from posting the rest of my reviews for this beautiful publisher. They resume this Spring, starting in April 2016.
Number of Books Read of a Publisher (Top 5):
{ full listing of publishers I review as I read }
(1) Small Trade | Indie Pub/Press | Self-Pub or Hybrid = 54 Books (mix of fiction & non-fiction)
I elected to combine every which way to Sunday an author can be an ‘Indie Author’
(2) Cedar Fort Publishing & Media = 35 Books (mix of fiction, non-fiction & cookery)
I reviewed quite a few non-fiction and cookbooks in 2015 ontop of the fiction releases
(3) HarperCollins Publishers = 16 Books
William Morrow and the P.S. Editions still remain my most read choices
(4) ChocLitUK = 6 Books (of multiple sub-genres within Romance)
My reading queue was lower this year due to health & those lightning storms!
(5) Penguin Random House = 6 (should have been 7 with The Little Paris Bookshop)
I find the break-downs per year the most interesting; especially as my inclinations to read Indie Authors increases each year. Mind you, I love Major Trade and I think if I could reach the point where I read 50% of both Indie and Major Trade markets per year, I’ll be quite happy indeed! I’m a hardcore Indie girl / reader, but I cannot dismiss the fact I still *love!* Major Trade!
The publishers where I read less than five were as follows:
Simon and Schuster | Hachette | Kensington | MacMillian | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Number of Blog Tours Hosted: 83
(individual blog tours – some had multiple posts spilt between reviews & author guest features)
Novels: 88
Short Stories: 20
Inside “Corvidae” (review)
- Whistles and Thrills by Kat Otis
- The Rookery of Sainte-Mère-Église by Tim Deal
- Raven No More by Adria Laycraft
- The Tell-Tale Heart of Existence by Michael M. Rader
- Sanctuary by Laura VanArendonk Baugh
- Flight by Angela Slatter
- The Valravn by Angela Slatter
- Visiting Hours by Michael S. Pack
- A Murder of Crows (a poem) by Jane Yolen
Inside “Rift in the Sky” | blogged on 1st Trade Pact (review)
Stonerim III
Inside “A Thousand Words for Stranger” (review)
Brothers Bound
Inside “FAE” (review)
- Rosie Red Jacket by Christine Morgan
- Antlers by Amanda Block
- Only Make Believe by Lauren Liebowitz
- The Cartography of Shattered Trees by Beth Cato
Inside “Darkness with a Chance of Whimsy” (review)
- The Assurance Salesman
- Fade
- Do Better
- Inner Strength
- Starter Kit
Non-Fiction: 13
Cookery: 9
Pages read: 34,073
(+1) Alaina Claiborne | I only was able to read the opening chapters
(+1) Devil in the White City | listened to the audiobook and read the hardback (a quarter of the book)
(+1) The Barter | read the opening chapters (in-progress late December)
Let’s break this down a bit further, shall we?
You can use this as a ‘preview guide’ of how to use my Story Vault.