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January 3, 2019

REVIEW: Footsteps in the Dark by Georgette Heyer

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / Classic Murder Mystery / crime fiction / England / haunted house / Historical7 Comments

What begins as an adventure soon becomes a nightmare… Locals claim it is haunted and refuse to put a single toe past the front door, but to siblings Peter, Celia, and Margaret, the Priory is nothing more than a rundown estate inherited from their late uncle-and the perfect setting for ... more >

November 30, 2016

REVIEW: Miracle on 5th Avenue by Sarah Morgan

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsChristmas / Contemporary / crime fiction / New York City / widower / Writer2 Comments

It will take a Christmas miracle for two very different souls to find each other in this perfectly festive fairy tale of New York! Hopeless romantic Eva Jordan loves everything about Christmas. She might be spending the holidays alone this year, but when she’s given an opportunity to house-sit a ... more >

March 30, 2016

Wednesday News: Plagiarism, motion publishing, Korean military romance, and women in the wild

JanetPublishing Newscamping / China / crime fiction / Descendants of the Sun / Ingrid Black / Korean military drama / motion book platform / nature writing / plagiarism7 Comments

The girl who stole my book: How Eilis O’Hanlon found out her crime novels were swiped by a stranger  – For those who don’t read the comments to the news posts, “Anon” provided a link to this story in the comments to yesterday’s news post, and I think it deserves ... more >

April 1, 2015

Wednesday News: New Lisbeth Salander book, value of negative reviews, black characters in soaps, and crowdfunding for One Direction

JanetPublishing Newscrime fiction / crowdfunding / diversity / marketing / reviews / soap operas / Stieg Larsson5 Comments

From ‘Dragon Tattoo’ To The ‘Spider’s Web’: Stieg Larsson’s Heroine Returns – So it has actually happened: Stieg Larsson’s Millennium novels are being continued with Swedish crime reporter David Lagercrantz as their author. Although Larsson did not exactly have a beautiful writing style, it’s going to be interesting to see ... more >

August 22, 2014

Friday News: Controversial new Spider Woman cover, Canadian copyright’s unintended consequences, Arab Noir fiction, and Gretna Green’s marriage business

JanetPublishing NewsArab fiction / Canada / Comics / copyright / crime fiction / education / Fair Use / gender / Gretna Green / patriarchy / Scotland / sexuality / textbooks / weddings11 Comments

New Spider-Woman comic cover condemned for ‘blatant sexualisation’ – An interesting illustration of the disconnect between the diversification of the comic reader and those still producing them (and a good companion piece to the diversity in publishing story from yesterday). The new cover, a “variant” cover by erotic illustrator Milo ... more >

June 16, 2014

Monday News: FutureBookHack UK Hackathon, Tribune spinning off newspapers, bookstore literally dumps books, and women writing crime fiction

JanetPublishing Newscrime fiction / gender / genre / hackathon / independent booksellers / Newspapers / publishing2 Comments

FutureBookHack Category Winners revealed – Almost 100 hackers gathered at the University College London for the first FutureBookHack. Organized by The Bookseller and intended to address challenges set by publishers, the event spanned this past weekend and yielded a number of projects for both print and digital publishing. An overall ... more >

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