Adria Bailton

Author: Adria Bailton

  • 2025 Reading Reflection & Reading Goals for 2026

    Check out my previous goals and reading reflections I have finally returned to my normal average reading! 24% over my goal isn’t too shabby. I’m very pleased. As always, Goodreads sends their year-end graphics a few days before the end of the year based on data from almost 2 weeks prior. Last year I was…

  • 2025 Writing Goal Wrap-up and 2026 Goal Setting

    It is the last Friday of the year and time to assess my goals from this year and set new ones for next year. Spoilers: I fell way off my writerly goals in 2025. Click my Goals category to read previous goal setting and updates. I’ll review the previous year’s throughout so you don’t have to go…

  • Short Story Round-Up #104

    This is back-dated because I came down ill and got very behind. In November, I suggested twenty (20) stories from a few different markets. Still trying to keep up on my reading. Diabolical Plots published: Resurrection Scars by Sheila Massie in October.A story of grief and ego. The Glorious Pursuit of Nominal by Lisa Brideau…

  • Short Story Round-Up #103

    October was super hectic because I received my dev edits for my YA science fiction novel, Worlds Divide, which comes out in April from Balance of Seven Press. This is my debut novel, so the entire process is new to me. This left me with less reading time. No novels (because I need nothing that…

  • Short Story Round-Up #102

    My life got to some semblance of “normal” in September. I’m still in temporary housing, but I was able to post regularly starting on the 1st! I missed a day, but all in all, I suggested twenty-one (21) stories. Here they are in one convenient place. Dislocated by Stephen Granade was published at Flash Fiction…

  • Reading Reflection for Third Quarter

    I already met my reading goal for the year! It’s so nice to reach it early. It means I can bump up next year. I might make my pre-reading slump rate of a book a week this year! What did I read? In the third quarter of 2025, I read fourteen books. I read primarily…

  • Short Story Round-Up #101

    August was a hectic month for me. I moved from the West coast to the East coast which involved a lot of work on both sides of the US and not much time for reading. My internet was often unreliable. I only posted ten (10) stories. Here they are in case you missed them. Crepuscular…

  • Short Story Round-Up #100

    Hoo-ray! This is my one hundredth short story round-up post! I started short story recs on social media and posting round-ups in 2021. Some round-ups were groups of ten (10) and for some time, I posted weekly. I’ve been doing monthly posts for a couple of years. In July, I didn’t post reliably due to…

  • Short Story Round-Up #99

    In June I suggested 21 stories. Miss any? Here are all the stories I suggested in one place. Small Wonders published: Jack of All Faces by Bree Wernicke in April.A magnificent tale in only a couple of sentences. Let It Be Your Call by Ali Trotta in April. A poem about magick. skeletal arms will…

  • Reading Reflection for Second Quarter 2025

    This graph lies just a tiny bit because I read a book already in July and it’s captured by this bar. In 2025, I’ve read 33 books of the 42 goal so far. At the required 50% date, I was 78% towards my annual goal. If I stay 10 books ahead of goal for the…