From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Review: A Date You Can’t Refuse, by Harley Jane Kozak

September 30, 2009 Books and Reading

In A Date You Can’t Refuse, by Harley Jane Kozak, greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is made an offer she can’t refuse: the FBI wants her to be a cooperative witness and infiltrate the offices of MediaRex, as MediaRex’s newest “social coach”. In return, the FBI will ensure that Wollie’s brother, who suffers from schizophrenia, will [...]

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Allergies, Lots of Reading, and Finishing a DNF

September 28, 2009 Books and Reading

After looking forward to The Word on the Street all week, we all ended up missing the entire event. On Saturday, with the colder weather and the rain, allergies began hitting us – not the tiny-sniffle type of allergies, but full blown sinus-pressure, drippy nose (you wanted to hear that one, didn’t you?), cough [...]

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[TSS] The Big List of Book Giveaways, Sept. 27 Edition

September 27, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

Big List of Book Giveaways at MsBookish, September 27, 2009 Edition

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What Are Your Favorite Words?

September 25, 2009 Writing

From now until November 1, in preparation for NaNoWriMo, I will be in full research mode for my NaNoWriMo novel. (Here’s my NaNoWriMo profile – if you’re participating, let’s be Writing Buddies!)
My research? Words! Lots and lots of glorious, gorgeous words, with perhaps a handful of more desolate words for variety.
I will be in full [...]

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Interview: Author Joy Preble Talks About Her Writing Process

September 24, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

An interview with author Joy Preble!

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Where I Throw Up My Hands in Resignation and Yell, “I’m Giving Up!”

September 23, 2009 Books and Reading

There’s no graceful way to post about this, so I thought I might as well let my Inner Drama Queen take over.
(If you have any pots and pans handy, feel free to bang on them and add to the general noise and ruckus.)
Are you ready?
I’M GIVING UP!
So, what exactly am I giving up [...]

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The Me-and-My-Books Relationship

September 22, 2009 Books and Reading

Molly at My Cozy Book Nook has a great post about why she writes in books. I myself don’t tend to mark-up books as I’m reading them, but it’s not because I feel any sort of taboo about writing in a book; I just never think about doing it.
One interesting result of participating in the [...]

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Harry Potter in Audio: Books 1 and 2

September 21, 2009 Books and Reading

For the Harry Potter Reading Challenge, I decided to re-read the Harry Potter series in audiobook format.
I’d just like to pat myself on the back now, and say, “Good decision, Belle”.
I’ve always had a sort of strange envy for people who decided to start reading the Harry Potter books after book seven was [...]

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[TSS] BBAW Giveaways, and NaNoWriMo, Anyone?

September 20, 2009 Writing

I was just over at BBAW and there’s a massive list of Book Blogger Giveaways there – many of them are still open, so rather than re-invent the wheel this week, I thought it would be smarter to just point everyone over there to take part in BBAW giveaway fun.
Okay, yes, I was also feeling [...]

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Kaleb Nation, Author of Bran Hambric, Talks About His Writing Process

September 19, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

"What if your mother was a criminal? What if her crime was magic? What if magic ran in the family?" This is the intriguing premise of Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse, a middle grade fantasy novel written by Kaleb Nation.
Kaleb initially got the idea for Bran Hambric when he was fourteen years old; he [...]

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