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August 7, 2018

REVIEW: Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews18th-century / Canada / Contemporary / dual-timeline / enemies to lovers / French and Indian War / Ghost / museum / soldiers / upstate New York6 Comments

“The house, when I first saw it, seemed intent on guarding what it knew; but we all learned, by the end of it, that secrets aren’t such easy things to keep.” It’s late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this ... more >

July 30, 2015

Thursday News: celebrating Romance, restricting books, rewriting Little Women, and erasing women’s history

JanetPublishing Newsbest of list / book banning / dystopian / gender / Louisa May Alcott / museum / npr / television adaptation / women's history / YA11 Comments

Happy Ever After: 100 Swoon-Worthy Romances – An interesting list that at the very least reflects the difficulty in making any kind of “best of” list. If that’s what this is. We get back, pretty quickly, to the question of what makes a Romance novel effective, and what “good” or “best” ... more >

June 30, 2015

Tuesday News: From comics to shoes, with a couple of stops in between

JanetPublishing NewsComics / Ebooks / First-Amendment / infographic / literary history / Marvel / museum / Science Fiction / shoes / terrorism / video games6 Comments

Marvel’s Contest of Champions leaps from video game to comic book – In yet another sign that entertainment genres are simultaneously and paradoxically diversifying and merging, Marvel has announced that they will be creating a comic based on the video game Contest of Champions, which features kidnapped superheroes forced by ... more >

September 22, 2014

Monday News: Amazon’s Campfire, sound technology at new David Bowie exhibition, new reader & author conference, and real-life inspired superhero c

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / authors / Comics / conference / David Bowie / Hachette / Jeff Bezos / museum / Superhero / technology18 Comments

A Writerly Chill at Jeff Bezos’ Fire – There’s some real crap in this article (the swat at Ayelet Waldman is particularly sexist and offensive), but I also thought it was worth posting, if you haven’t already seen it, because it sheds some light on a little of the relationships ... more >

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