News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Apple Loses Appeal; E-Book Decision Is Upheld (Publishers Weekly) The OED adds about 500 new words, including cisgender, jeggings, and twerk. Read about some… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books I’d Love to See as Movies/TV Shows. There are quite a few fantasy and science fiction books/series that I think should be made into films or TV shows –… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things I Love/Hate About Romance in Books. I love meeting authors, or at least getting a chance to hear them talk about their books. And I’ve been really lucky in… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things I Love/Hate About Romance in Books. I find posts like this one nearly impossible. How on earth do I pick just ten of the authors whose books I… Read more »
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures – I mean books! My Week The semiannual Friends of the Library book sale was this week, and… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Character You’d Like To Check In With – as in, see what they’ve been up to in the last 5 to 100 years. I’ve limited this to characters who… Read more »
Each Thursday, inspired by ‘The Tough Guide to Fantasyland’ we have in hand, we shall tour the mystical countryside looking for adventure and fun (and tropes) from all over fantasy. (Hosted by Nathan at Fantasy Review Barn) Beloved Mounts Fantasy is full of “mounts” of various sorts – and full… Read more »
“Amazing.” “Incredible.” “Life-changing.” Those are just some of the ways Alpha graduates have described their experience, and it’s true. I know, because our daughter Robin* attended not once, but twice. Alpha is a workshop for teen writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. For eleven days, they attend interactive sessions… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things I Love/Hate About Romance in Books. Wait, you want me to keep this down to a mere ten? You’ve got to be kidding me! OK, here are some of… Read more »
Tough Travels is a meme hosted by Fantasy Review Barn. Each Thursday, inspired by ‘The Tough Guide to Fantasyland’ we have in hand, we shall tour the mystical countryside looking for adventure and fun (and tropes) from all over fantasy. KNIGHTS Um. Noble rich people on horseback. Come on, you… Read more »
