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🌟 Welcome to Your Voices in the Spotlight Journey! 🌟

This is your personal space to track your progress through the Author Spotlight Challenge.
Post all completions here as you explore new authors, complete tasks, and dive deeper into the voices that resonate with you.

🔗 Important Links
📚 The Spotlight Library (Master Hub)
📘Emerging Authors Spotlight Mini
💬 Spotlight Readers’ Lounge
❓ Q&A
📕Nominate an author


⭐ Your Spotlight Progress
You may use this space to track authors you’ve completed or Deep Dived.

Example:
✔ Author Completed — Sarah Beth Durst
🏆 Deep Dive — Ramona Emerson

📖 Posting Completions
When you finish a Spotlight task, please use this format:

Author:
Book Title:
Task Completed: (Core / Spotlight Pick / Exploration / Deep Dive)
Optional Thoughts:

🌿 Whether you complete one author or many, this challenge is about discovery, curiosity, and enjoying the journey through new stories.

Challenge Rules
📘Standard Rules Apply
📘Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
📘A single book may not count toward additional tasks unless it is the Spotlight Pick. That may count as the Core Task and Spotlight Pick.

Author: Sarah Beth Durst
Book Title: The Lost
Pages: 340
Date: 4/4/26
Task Completed: Core
Optional Thoughts: I liked this book much more than I thought I would!

Author: Sarah Beth Durst
Book Title: The Spellshop
Pages: 384
Date: 4/14/26
Task Completed: Spotlight Pick

Author: Sara Beth Durst
Book Title: The Queen of Blood
Pages:368
Date: 4/27/26
Task Completed: Exploration Task

Author: Sara Beth Durst
Book Title: The Enchanted Greenhouse
Pages: 378
Date: 4/28/26
Task Completed: Deep Dive Bonus

Author: Zoraida Córdova
Book Title: Incendiary
Pages: 464
Date Read: 5/3/26
Task Completed: Core Task

Author: Zoraida Córdova
Book Title: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
Pages: 335
Date: 5/8/26
Task Completed: Spotlight Pick

Author: Zoraida Córdova
Book Title: Illusionary
Pages: 368
Date: 5/14/26
Task Completed: Deep Dive Bonus

Author: Robert Isaacs
Book Title: It's Hard to Be an Animal
Pages: 277
Date: 5/21/26
Task Completed: Exploration Task

A new voice echoes through the Library…
Have you stepped into any Spotlight author’s world yet?

Author: S.L. Rowland
Book Title: Cursed Cocktails
Pages: 292
Date: 6/18/26
Task Completed: Core

Author: S.L. Rowland
Book Title: Sentenced to Troll
Pages: 358
Date: 6/20/26
Task Completed: Spotlight Pick

Author: S.L. Rowland
Book Title: Sword & Thistle
Pages: 256
Date: 6/27/26
Task Completed: Deep Dive Bonus

Author: S.L. Rowland
Book Title: Sentenced to Troll 2
Pages: 354
Date: 6/30/26
Task Completed: Exploration Task

Author: Mariana Enriquez
Book Title: Things We Lost in the Fire
Pages: 208
Date: 7/31/26
Task Completed: Core Task

Author: Mariana Enriquez
Book Title: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Pages: 181
Date: 9/6/26
Task Completed: Deep Dive Bonus

Some readers linger… others wander.
Are you the type to stay with one author for a while — or drift between many?

I finish one author and go to the next...

Author: Mariana Enriquez
Book Title: Our Share of Night
Pages: 608
Date: 9/23/26
Task Completed: Spotlight Pick

Author: Mariana Enriquez
Book Title: Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys
Pages: 336
Date: 9/24/26
Task Completed: Exploration task

Author: Ramona Emerson
Book Title: Shutter
Task Completed: Spotlight pick

Author: Ramona Emerson
Book Title: Exposure
Task Completed: Core task

Author: Olivia Blacke
Book Title: A New Lease on Death
Task Completed: Exploration task