Here’s what’s coming up on the site this week: Monday: My weekly preview! Tuesday: Teaser Tuesday…plus a delayed guest post! Wednesday: More Wondrous Words and some new books. Thursday: Check back for my review of The Last Kind Words by Friday: I’ve got a Guest Post today from Elizabeth Corrigan, author of Oracle of Philadelphia, talking about where to write. Saturday: Saturday Snapshot –I have… Read more
Lord, I love a hot man with a book. Jeremy Renner with two books? That makes my whole weekend! Read more
In a personal statement issued yesterday, Scottish author Iain Banks announced that he has terminal cancer. According to the statement, his time is quite limited and his latest novel, The Quarry, will likely be his last. I can think of few books that gave me the sort of bone-deep shivers that The Wasp Factory gave me. Unfortunately, Banks is one of those… Read more
I know it’s not Friday, but I’ve got a bit of a double-whammy for you today! First, I’ve got a guest post from Alison Moton, author of Inceptio. Once you read Alison’s post about alternate realities, be sure to click through for one-chapter Sneak Peek that you can download! That should make for some great reading, right in the middle of… Read more
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list! This weekend, I went to the… Read more
Disclaimer: I voted for Carla Hall for Fan Favorite on Top Chef. I loved Carla’s attitude and I loved the look of her food when she was on Top Chef. I always prefer the low-drama, high-teamwork folks who are focused on the cooking. Because of that, I was really excited to check out Carla’s cookbook. Now, I am always a little… Read more
It’s Friday and that means that, as usual, I’m letting someone else do the work for me! Today, I’ve got a guest post from Will Milar, author of Infernal Machines (A Vintage Horror Novel). With horror novels, I am always interested in why someone chooses to write horror, what drew them to the genre and made them decide that was the… Read more
I get a lot of review requests – A LOT. Most of them, I have to decline just because I can’t spend all my time reading, even if I wanted to. But sometimes, even when I have to turn a request for a review, I find that I want to tell people about the book anyway. That’s the case with Upload… Read more
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list! This week, my teaser comes from The… Read more
I haven’t been very good about keeping up with my library lately. Books keep pouring in – I am the luckiest girl on the planet – and I hardly have time to add them to LibraryThing, let alone tell you about them. But today, I’ve got a few great titles from the last few weeks. The Art of Thinking… Read more