Goodbye Blogging

Hi everyone still reading. Is anyone still reading?

For about a year, I’ve been apologizing for not blogging more. For years, I posted regularly three to four times a week. But as I’ve started teaching more and writing more and blogging for Book Riot , this little project has been taking a back burner. I haven’t found the time to post three times a month, let alone three times a week. And blogging has changed too.

But I’m done saying sorry. And I don’t want to fade out of Hardcovers & Heroines without saying a proper goodbye. Instead of sorry, I want to say thank you. Thank you for reading. Whether you’ve been reading since the beginning (hi Mom!) or you are just reading this post. Thank you for commenting. Thank you for recommending books and encouraging me with my own writing. Thank you for your congratulations when things are going well. Thank you for your kind words when things aren’t.

I started Hardcovers & Heroines with a college friend in 2012. Blogging was the big thing at the time, and we were on opposite coasts. It seemed like it was a good way to stay in touch. And we were both just getting interested in young adult books. Though that friendship ended and my cofounder took her posts down, the blog continued. And since I’ve started blogging I’ve:

• Started a nine to five job
• Quit a nine to five job
• Lived in 4 states
• Written three novels
• Graduated an MFA Program
• Started Teaching
• Started Writing for Book Riot
• Got an agent
• Dealt with Depression
• Started meds & seeing a therapist
• Had nine roommates
• Grown out and recut my bangs
• Marry, Date, or Dumped all my fictional crushes
• And read more books than I can count … actually I keep track of them on goodreads. I’m just too lazy to count them right now.

I learned about YA books on this blog and from other bloggers who’ve been doing this longer than me. I made wonderful friends through this blog, with a special shout out to Jackie Lea Sommers and Betsy Cornwell, who are both incredibly supportive and inspiring writers in my life.

And I’m not disappearing forever. I’m still figuring out what to do with this space. And hope to check back in semi-regularly (one a month? one a season?) with a few book recommendations and some of my Book Riot articles.

Thank you. I really mean it.

Thank you.