Beautiful Creatures: A Half Review
Beautiful Creatures is a marvelous, challenging book, completely outside my regular taste–and I love it. Generally speaking, I don’t read romance. I’m not against the idea of it, but I prefer stories where love isn’t the driving force solely for love’s sake. But every now and then, a book hits me–really hits me–and I find myself questioning everything. Beautiful Creatures is one of those books. Written by duo Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl,...
Read MoreAnd The Winners of the 800 Follower Contest Are…
@shala_darkstone & Maggie Gibson! All in all, there were 23 entries – not bad for my first contest – and the winners were picked via Random.org. And there will be plenty of chances to win again, as I’m going to run a book contest every time I hit a new 100 follower milestone. So stay tuned – I’m at 841 followers right now, which means it’s not long ’til the 900 giveaway! Congrats to Shala & Maggie! I’ll update with the books they choose...
Read MoreVideo: Books & E-Media & Everything I Need to Know I Learned From A Children’s Book
YouTube may be a video site, but it’s excellent for finding book news if you know where to look. These two videos are from the Library of Congress’ channel. Mystery aficionados Barbara Peters and Robert Rosenwald, owners of Poisoned Pen Books and Poisoned Pen Press in Scottsdale, AZ on the state of publishing and how the “medium [influences] the message.” Great watch if you’re interested in e-books, digital ink, and wireless reading devices. Roaring Brook...
Read MoreCover Notes: Five Flavors of Dumb, by Antony Jon
Cover Notes is a new series I’ll be running every Monday. Rather than focusing on covers of books I’ve read, I’ll be writing about books I’ve never read and recording my first impressions of their covers. Each book will also have an Embarrasment Factor of between zero & five, with zero meaning “a totally awesome cover I want to write fan mail about” and five meaning “I’m ashamed to be seen with this in public.” Five Flavors of Dumb was facing out when I first saw it,...
Read MoreFriday Book News: 6 Links For Your Morning Coffee Break (Memories Edition!)
I’m about to head out to Tufts for the Excellence in Children’s Media awards, so it’s a short & bittersweet post this morning. This week has seen the children’s book industry lose three people – Margaret K. McElderry, Janet Schulman, & L.K. Madigan. Here’s what I’m reading to remember them. In this 1997 NYT piece for Children’s Book Week, Eden Ross Lipson speaks with Margaret McElderry, not just as a publisher, but a person. Fantastic...
Read MoreRSS Glitch & My Book Hits Shelves…sort of!
A quick apology to folks subscribed via RSS – I know a strange, un-book related post came up in my feed today, and that the link now goes nowhere. It’s part of a video project I’m working on for the social media internship I’m doing right now, and the site hiccoughed while I was putting a page together. If you’re interested, I’ll put together a post based on the internship sometime in the next week or two. Just drop me a line in the comments to let me know...
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