“Far more books are published by men than by women, perhaps because publishers feel that books by men are a safer bet. We can affect this by making a choice when it comes to the books we buy, since how we chose to spend our money is the most effective… Read more »
A few weeks ago, I read Paper Fury’s post about books that don’t have conclusions, books where there’s a problem and it doesn’t get solved. She likes them even when they frustrate her. I can’t stand them even if well written. In trying to formulate why I feel that way,… Read more »
Spock is dead. And I am crying. When I was growing up, Spock was one of my favorite characters on Star Trek. I loved that he was smart and didn’t have to hide it, and I loved the humanity that lurked beneath the cool Vulcan exterior. I loved the usually… Read more »
Anna over at Herding Cats & Burning Soup has a discussion-starter post about whether Kindle Unlimited is hurting authors’ sales, or whether the problem is just market saturation. I started to reply to her post, and realized I was writing a whole post of my own… so here it is…. Read more »
If you’re a book blogger, has blogging affected your reading? Specifically, has it changed what books you read? I ask this because I’ve realized that in the last few years, since I began to blog more consistently, my reading is often for the blog rather than the other way around…. Read more »
This showed up on Facebook recently, shared by an author who doesn’t agree with it. I have to say that I’m getting tired of this argument. The content is the book, and the book is the content. Paper or electronic is just the medium. It’s fine to prefer one medium… Read more »
Yesterday, I got an email from Sony informing me that they are closing their Reader Store as of March 20th. The Reader Store is Sony’s ebook retail store, and sells ePub books to customers with any ePub device, not just Sony Reader owners. The closure affects the US and Canadian… Read more »
… is sarcastic, satirical fun. You may know Jim Hines as the author of Libriomancer, Codex Born, and the Princess series featuring Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White as three-dimensional, kick-a** heroines. Or maybe you know him as that guy who dresses up and poses like the women on SF… Read more »
I’m participating in the Reverse Author Interviews meme sponsored by Book Munchies. It’s the authors’ turn to put us on the spot! Over the next month, a series of authors will pose questions for participating bloggers to answer. Today’s author is Kendare Blake, author of this year’s popular YA… Read more »
The New York Times Sunday Book Review has published their list of “Notable Children’s Books of 2012.” Looking through the list, which is broken into YA, MG, and picture books, I find I’ve read (and reviewed) only two of them — though I have put several others on my TBR… Read more »
