The Bookwyrm’s Hoard

This Week’s Articles (7/22 to 7/28/2012)

In case you missed it, the latest Hobbit production video is up on The Hobbit Blog. It’s nearly 14 minutes long. If you’re excited about the upcoming movie, you won’t want to miss this. Dear Author reports on the Department of Justice’s recent release of comments about the proposed ebook… Read more »

Midnight Promises, by Sherryl Woods (review)

Midnight Promises by Sherryl Woods Series: Sweet Magnolias #8 Published by Harlequin MIRA on July 26, 2012 Genres: Contemporary Romance Format: eBook Source: purchased Goodreads Also in this series: Where Azaleas Bloom, Catching Fireflies, Swan Point Also by this author: Where Azaleas Bloom, Catching Fireflies, A Seaside Christmas, Home to… Read more »

Using Images in Blog Posts

© Like most bloggers, I’ve sometimes posted photos or pictures taken from the Internet, usually those I found through Google Images. However, I’ve sometimes wondered uneasily whether I was breaking copyright to do so. Recently, I’ve been more careful about the images I use. It turns out that I was… Read more »

Sunrise Point, by Robyn Carr (review)

Book description: Former marine Tom Cavanaugh’s come home to Virgin River, ready to take over his family’s apple orchard and settle down. He knows just what the perfect woman will be like: sweet, decent, maybe a little naive. The marrying kind. Nothing like Nora Crane. So why can’t he keep… Read more »

Visiting Laura: The Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, MN

Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Walnut Grove, MN (photo ©Kara Pekar, 2012) While we were on vacation last month, we stumbled across the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum in Walnut Grove, MN. I hadn’t realized we would be near any of the Laura Ingalls Wilder sites on this trip, let alone… Read more »

This Week’s Articles (7/15 – 7/21/2012)

Since I was on vacation without Internet for three weeks, some of these articles are from earlier than the past week. “How I got a big advance from a big publisher and self-published anyway” (Penelope Trunk) is a blog post detailing Trunk’s experience with the marketing department of a major… Read more »

Tor/Forge eBooks Now DRM-free

Tom Doherty Associates, the Macmillan subsidiary, announced this morning that Tor/Forge books are now available DRM-free from all major ebook retailers, including Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google, Kobo, and Sony. Tom Doherty Associates publishes under the Tor, Forge, Orb, and Tor Teen imprints. I checked most of the major… Read more »

Cast On, Kill Off, by Maggie Sefton (review)

Cast On, Kill Off by Maggie Sefton Series: Knitting Mystery #10 Published by Berkley on 6/05/2012 Genres: Cozy Mystery, Mystery Format: Hardcover Source: the library Goodreads Also in this series: Close Knit Killer, Yarn Over Murder, Purl Up and Die, Knit to Be Tied, Only Skein Deep Also by this… Read more »

Rainshadow Road, by Lisa Kleypas (review)

Category: Contemporary romanceSeries: Friday Harbor #2 Book source: Public library; have since bought the e-book Rainshadow Road, the sequel to Kleypas’s Christmas Eve in Friday Harbor (reviewed earlier on this blog), is a comfortable love story with a touch of magic realism and more emotional depth than its predecessor. Glass… Read more »

Literary Losses: Else Holmelund Minarik, Donald J. Sobol

The world of children’s literature lost two well-loved children’s authors last week: Donald J. Sobol and Else Holmelund Minarik. Which of us did not read at least one “Encyclopedia Brown” mystery as a child? For many of us, it was our first introduction to the mystery genre. The series debuted… Read more »