on Reading and Writing and All the Speculation In Between
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming. Despite all my intentions to the contrary, I did get to read at least a few books in between all the writing and editing of the past two months… Sneaking in other people’s words like the true bookaholic I know myself to be. And I always said……
Once again, I have to say: I feel lucky for having found a great group of mutually supportive writers via Twitter/Triberr. In this specific case, Barbara Rose (who also writes as Barbara Mack, whose book Chasing the Sunset I reviewed a few months back) has released a new young adult fantasy. She was kind enough…
Once again my Twitter addiction paid off for me: on February 20, @prmason reminded all her followers: “Entanglements (a full-length urban fantasy/paranormal romance) FREE for only a few more hours at Amazon.” I hadn’t actually read any of her other work, and I always enjoy a good urban fantasy, so I wandered over to Amazon…
I’ve been up to my eyeballs in editing, lately–both my own book and as part of my freelance services. That doesn’t leave me much time to do much more than consider plot points, devices, through-lines, and other writerly things… But I’m also feeling the pressure of maintaining at least a little bit of activity on…
I first “met” Kait Nolan on Twitter, where she shares wry and self-deprecating tales of home and work life as well as gluten-free cooking experiments under her @kaitonlan handle. Based on reading her blogs, I had to assume she was at least a decent writer, but just hadn’t gotten around to reading one of her…
Amazon seems to have sussed out my penchant for urban fantasy tales, and therefore came to recommend “Angels’ Blood” on a recent browsing/purchasing binge… I’m glad the recommendation engine was smart enough to do so, because I thoroughly enjoyed the story. Nalini Singh is a new author to me, but seems to have taken as…
I had been holding off on actually picking this up and reading it, because I knew that given Carriger’s past performance I really wouldn’t be able to do anything other than finish it once begun. True to form, once I got into it, my husband wasn’t able to get through to me on small issues…
This being the ninth book in this series… there’s not a lot I can say that won’t be a spoiler… so this is your fair warning: Read further at your own peril. (If you’re like me, and read the end first anyway, I know you will ignore this anyway.) 🙂 Before I go too much…
Can I say “holy carp…”? After having placed the order for this book back in February, I was more than happy to see it arrive in this afternoon’s mail. And, honestly, it’s not uncommon for a book you’ve been waiting for that way to disappoint. But somehow, the writing team of Ilona Andrews is improving…