Awards, events, and other blogging-related stuff
Many, many thanks to Emily Bryan of Emily Bryan Romance for selecting me for an award! I hosted Emily on her 50 Day Book Tour for Vexing the Viscount and she was an absolute delight! Many of my regular readers chatted with her throughout the day about historical fiction and romance novels and it was really a fun, fun day.… Read more
Somehow, I missed this news when it originally came out. I certainly didn’t recognize the name, and this is definitely a name that more people should recognize. Judith F. Krug died earlier this month of stomach cancer. According to articles in the New York Times and Wikipedia, she led campaigns by libraries to fight the banning of books, and later… Read more
Recently, I reviewed Rubber Side Down: The Biker Poetry Anthology. I recently a lovely email follow-up from Marc Goldfinger – author of one of my favorite poems in the book, “The State Trooper & the Biker Get Tested.” I mentioned that Marc is a substance abuse counselor and he told me a little about his work. Marc has written a… Read more
I want to send a big THANK YOU out to Nancy Johnston at Read Street. It’s a great book blog with all kinds of book news – I stop in regularly and I found out today that I won a book! I am really looking forward to reading Christopher Moore’s Fool and I am thrilled to be a winner. Read more
Starting today, I will be writing a weekly book review column for a great website called When Falls the Coliseum. I am really thrilled about the opportunity to write with this talented group of people. I will still be posting regularly here, but I hope you’ll all stop in and wish me good luck at my new digs! My first… Read more
Happy Birthday, Mr. Darwin! This is certainly a good place to remember the birthday of a man who wrote one of the most influential books in history – certainly one of the books that has caused the most controversy. I had hoped to be a part of Blog for Darwin, but it’s just been impossible to get much done on… Read more
My Secret Santa gift arrived yesterday, so a special thanks goes out to Melissa at Here in the Bonny Glenn. She sent a bit of coffee, some tasty almond twist cookies and a beautiful and unusual candle holder. A lovely gift. Thank you so much! Read more
I am really pleased today to be hosting a special post from Jennie Shortridge, author of Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe. This is another book I finished during my travels and I am looking forward to posting my review later this week. (I really enjoyed it.) This has been a really fun blog tour, and I… Read more
I’m sorry that there hasn’t been much new to read here in a while. I’m battling The Cold of the Century, dealing with consultants and emissaries from The Corporate Office and trying to get ready for a 2-week business trip to Europe, so I am behind in my reading and my reviewing. In the next few weeks, you can look… Read more
I’ve been on the road this week (business travel is one of the more exhausting things I know – it should be an Olympic event!), so posts have been short. Still, I wanted to get in one last quick post for Banned Books Week. So here it is: a quiz that appeared earlier this week in The Guardian. Find out… Read more