SunitaBook Club / EssaysNo Comments

Dear Readers, Welcome to the third week of our readalong/discussion of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. You can find the introductory post here, Week 1 here, and Week 2 here. Sirius and I will be talking about everything through Chapter 26, which takes us more than three-quarters of the way ... more >

SunitaBook Club / Essays9 Comments

Dear Readers, Welcome to the second week of our readalong/discussion of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. Our introductory post is here and you can catch up with last week’s discussion here. We’re now halfway through our four-week project, at the end of Book 1. I was frequently lost last ... more >

SunitaBook Club / Essays12 Comments

Dear readers, Welcome to the first week of our readalong and discussion of Mikhail Bulgakov’s 20th century classic. As we said last week, we’ll be reading the book in four sections, and today we’ll talk about ch. 1-9. Sunita: For the purposes of this conversation, I’m the total newbie. I’m ... more >

SunitaEssays / FeaturesReadalong / Russian literature3 Comments

Last week I posted a deal on Mikhail Bulgakov’s 20thC classic, The Master and Margarita, and we had a lively discussion in the comments. I’ve been wanting to read it for ages and it is one of Sirius’s favorite books, so we decided that we would read it together and ... more >

August 15, 2017

GIVEAWAY: Temporary Duty Assignment

JaneEssaysgiveaway / second chance27 Comments

Ana from The Booksmugglers let me know that A.E. Ash had a new novella coming out. If you remember, Ash wrote Luminous which Kaetrin gave an A-. Kaetrin wrote, “I loved the spare style of writing and the little flourishes of flavour and meaning through the story. It’s the kind ... more >

KaetrinBeyond the Book / Conventions / EssaysAdelaide / Romance Writers of Australia / RuBY Awards10 Comments

I attended the Romance Writers of Australia conference in Adelaide, South Australia (my home town) over the weekend. While I only attended on Saturday and Sunday, the conference officially opened on Friday with a full day workshop for authors presented by screenwriter Michael Hauge. This year marked the 25th anniversary ... more >