Nonfiction November is hosted by Katie at Doing Dewey, Julie at Julz Reads, Sarah at Sarah’s Bookshelves, and Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness, and Rennie at What’s Nonfiction? Last week’s topic is Reads Like Fiction and is hosted by Rennie at What’s Nonfiction? Nonfiction books often get praised for how they stack up to fiction. Does it matter to… Read more »
Nonfiction November is hosted by Katie at Doing Dewey, Julie at Julz Reads, Sarah at Sarah’s Bookshelves, and Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness, and Rennie at What’s Nonfiction? This week’s topic is Reads Like Fiction and is hosted by Rennie at What’s Nonfiction? Nonfiction books often get praised for how they stack up to fiction. Does it matter to… Read more »
#Cockygate 101 If you follow romance blogs or romance authors’ social media accounts and you’ve been online over the weekend, you’ve probably come across the controversy swirling around #cockygate. Here’s the TL:DR version: Faleena Hopkins, an indie romance writer, registered two trademarks with the Patents and Trademarks Office. One was the… Read more »
Books have the power to change lives. And even cultures. This is a generation raised on Harry, Hermione, and Ron; on Katniss Everdeen; on Keladry of Mindelan, Linh Cinder, and countless other young heroes and heroines making a difference in a world gone badly awry. Of course they are… Read more »
New Year I’ll be honest: I’ve been struggling with blogging for much of the last year. Some of it is due to the mono I had last spring, which sapped my energy for months. (I’m not sure I’m entirely back to “normal” yet.) But some of it is that I’m… Read more »
Katherine over at I Wish I Lived in a Library recently posted a list of books she’s been meaning to read, and hasn’t. She writes: So often I find myself saying the same thing when it comes to books – “Oh I’ve been meaning to read that!” or “I… Read more »
I posted about this back in 2010, but the message is again relevant, so I’ve adapted and revised that post for today. Although the US economy has improved since I wrote the original post, President Trump’s budget proposal eliminates all federal funding for libraries. Improving economic conditions generally have not translated… Read more »
What is (or should be) the etiquette for image use with blog memes? I’m talking about the sort of weekly memes (features) that encourage other bloggers to participate and share their links—like the Sunday Post, Top Ten Tuesday, Waiting on Wednesday, and the like. Up until now, I have always used… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is All About the Villains. I started this as a Top Ten Tuesday post, but, well, it got away from me and turned into a sort of discussion of types of villains…. Read more »
Original Ideas? If there are only a limited number of basic plots, as many people claim, how does a writer make a book original, fresh, and interesting? Almost any plot line you can come up with has been done before. Heck, even fairy tales riff off each other — “Beauty… Read more »
