Nov 13 2007
Good news, neighbors to the North, Penguin will be selling books in Canada at US price points starting in 2008. A couple of weeks ago, there was an article about Canadians becoming increasingly unhappy with the price disparity on books, with the Canadian retail price being significantly higher than the US retail price even though [...]
Nov 13 2007
Ladies, I’d like to thank all three of you for the opportunity to review your newest novellas in the “Love and Lore” anthology at Samhain. The covers are gorgeous, the stories are hot and the Samhain content warning is, as always, fun in and of itself. Who comes up with those warnings? If I’m reading [...]
Nov 13 2007
I’ve been too busy to finish my article for Tuesday morning. I would like to say that it is something important like work or family but really, I just spent the weekend reading some really good books and I didn’t spend anytime writing. The article will be posted on Tuesday afternoon, though. It’s just flipped [...]
Nov 12 2007
Dear Ms. Roberts I feel a bit awkward writing this review because I know that you read the blog on occassion. I felt like I was on a Nora Roberts high the last three books. Angels Fall, Innocent in Death, and High Noon were all either keepers or close to keepers so I was near [...]
Nov 12 2007
The All About Romance Reader’s Top 100 Poll is out now. Maybe I can convince my blogging partners to do a table comparison as we did in the past. AAR also has an analysis of the poll available.
Nov 12 2007
Picture Source: Hijas Americanas Borders are adding 37 inch flat screen tvs to show “original programming, advertisements, news and weather.” My suggestion would be to add ESPN and football and it can be what one comedian (whose name I don’t remember) calls Daddy Daycare – the place where Dad’s can go while women are shopping. [...]
Nov 12 2007
Dear Readers: This is the book that cemented my love for the urban fantasy genre and, in particular, my love for Charles de Lint. This man is a master storyteller, who infuses his stories with lifelike characters, evocative settings, and a sense of wonder that I think is sometimes too often missing in a lot [...]
Nov 11 2007
I received an email from a Triskelion author giving an update on the state of the bankruptcy. Apparently, the list of contracts provided to the court by Kristi Studts aka Triskelion was incomplete and inaccurate. The schedules of contracts for sale that was issued by the bankruptcy court included contracts that were concluded (rights returned [...]
Nov 11 2007
Source: © William Coupon/CORBIS. Norman Mailer, a two time Pulitizer Prize winner, died from renal failure at the age of 84 on Saturday. Mailer’s award winning books were The Armies of the Night which his his account of the peace march on the Pentagon and The Executioner’s Song, the true story of the execution of [...]
Nov 11 2007
Looking for the review of Manga the Complete Guide? We’ve done some housecleaning and that link will be found here.
Nov 11 2007
My first portable reading device was a multi function device and a multi function device is what I use now. I remember asking my neighbor (who is an eBookwise user) what she thought of my Sony Reader. She loved the display, but for the price, she thought it needed to do more. As a mom, [...]
Nov 10 2007
Manga: The Complete Guide, by Jason Thompson. Del Rey. $19.95. 592 pages. A-. Dear Mr. Thompson, I can’t even imagine the effort it took to put this book together. I heard that you read one to two manga series a day, and upwards of 900 of them total to write the reviews within. The [...]
Nov 9 2007
Another epublishing house closes its e doors. Apparently a family issue has caused the owner to not continue at this time. I heard some conflicting reports of unpaid bills for the last 2 quarters but I also heard that the rights are all reverting and royalties will be paid. Also Siren Publishing is bidding on [...]
Nov 9 2007
Dear Mr. Tipton, My blogging partner Jane knows of my interest in history and historical fiction so I wasn’t surprised to see your book in a package of arcs I recently received from her. “Who is this woman he’s writing about?” I thought. The back blurb which states the book “is the story of a [...]
Nov 9 2007
Earlier this year, the copyright/plagiarism suit brought by Stuart Silverstein went to trial. Yesterday, the trial judge found in favor of Penguin (pdf link to ruling) and against the author holding that there simply wasn’t any creativity in the work that Silverstein compiled since ALL of the uncollected poems were included in his work, rather [...]
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