News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Please Look After This Bear. Thank You.” BookBench painted by artist Michelle Heron. Situated… Read more »
Yesterday, M @ My Closet Catalog posted a comment on the Print Books vs. Ebooks (again) post, asking “Now I’d love to hear your thoughts regarding professionally published vs. self-published.” By the time I finished answering her, I had a whole post… so here it is. I’ve written about that… Read more »
(Ray Bradbury, in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it… Read more »
Be Careful What You Witch For by Dawn Eastman Series: Family Fortune Mystery #2 Published by Berkley on 7/01/14 Genres: Cozy Mystery Format: Paperback Source: the publisher Add to Goodreads Also in this series: A Fright to the Death, An Unhappy Medium Also by this author: A Fright to the… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Favorite Classic Books (or) Top Ten Classics I Want to Read. I went with the latter. Here goes (and no fair berating me for not reading them yet!) As… Read more »
The Beekeeper’s Ball by Susan Wiggs Series: Bella Vista #2 Published by Harlequin MIRA on June 24, 2014 Genres: Contemporary Romance, Fiction Pages: 368 Format: eARC Source: the publisher through NetGalley Add to Goodreads Also in this series: The Apple Orchard Also by this author: Return To Willow Lake, The… Read more »
The Sunday Post is a meme hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. Here are… Read more »
The Unbound cover was released on SFSignal on Thursday. I love it! Can’t wait for the book to come out. Oh, wait, it’s not coming out until January. Darn! Here’s the book blurb: For five hundred years, the Porters have concealed the existence of magic from the world. Now, old… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. I had to skip News & Notes last week because I was out of town with very limited Internet, so… Read more »
Description: Lucy Drake and Brendan Caine have only one thing in common… And it’s likely to tear them apart. Because it was Brendan’s late wife, Jessie—and Lucy’s best friend—who’d brought them together in the first place. And since Jesse’s passing, Brendan’s been distracted by his two little ones…and the memory… Read more »
