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Blood & Dogs

22 May 2008 Jackie 2

I keep finding reviews of Blood Noir and I’m afraid to read them! The book comes out on Tuesday and I’m going to see Hamilton at a signing on the 3rd, but I don’t know if I’ll get a chance to read it. I was going to wait to buy […]

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Memory

21 May 2008 Jackie 0

In other news, Nicola is looking for some help. She keeps forgetting all of those great new authors once she gets to the bookstore. So she’s asking for help. If you want to recommend any new authors to her, head over to Alpha Heroes and put in your two sense. […]

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Playing with Fire by K. MacAlister

20 May 2008 Jackie 1

I just got my hands on the new Katie MacAlister novel, Playing with Fire, and I am loving it. Although, it did make me concerned about one thing. The novel is about the silver dragons, more importantly about Gabriel, the silver dragon wyvern. However, Aisling and Drake make several appearances, […]

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Who doesn’t love the paranormal?

20 May 2008 Jackie 2

It’s been a slow week for me. I’m currently reading Anne Rice’s The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty and it’s not engaging me that much. I want to read it, and it is interesting, but my mind has already wandered away from it (I think I’m going through a reading funk, […]

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Dollhouse, Vampires & a Rant

19 May 2008 Jackie 1

There wasn’t a lot of activity over the weekend, so I’m going to be including some from this weekend as well. Mark Henry at the League of Reluctant Adults interviewed Jeri Smith-Ready over the weekend. There are a couple of articles about Joss Whedon and his new television series, Dollhouse, […]

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Weekly Geeks #4 – Political & Social Issues

17 May 2008 Jackie 7

It’s weekly geeks time again and this weeks theme: Choose a political or social issue that matters to you. Find several books addressing that issue; they don’t have to books you’ve read, just books you might like to read. Using images (of the book covers or whatever you feel illustrates […]

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Vaughan Interview, Vampires & Dollhouse

16 May 2008 Jackie 2

There is an excerpt available for Colleen Gleason’s new Gardella novel, Twilight Burns. I found an interview Carrie Vaughn has done with MediaBlvd. It’s a little dated (April 26th), but it’s still a good read. The National Post has an article about the movie, Twilight, which states that the original […]

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Smith-Ready Interview Galore & Articles

15 May 2008 Jackie 1

Jeri Smith-Ready is all over the place today. She has a great novel that was just released on Friday and I can attest to that since I was able to read it a couple of weeks ago. Ann Aguirre is interviewing Jeri Smith-Ready about her latest novel, Wicked Game, and […]

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Interviews & Reviews

14 May 2008 Jackie 3

Jeri Smith-Ready is talking with David Coe about her latest novel and the joys of writing. She is also guest blogging over at Southern Fried Chicas about the “brainspace” the place where creative and problem-solving energy is flowing like crazy”. Kat Richardson is being interviewed over at SciFiChick about her […]

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Reading is Fundamental

14 May 2008 Jackie 3

I saw this posted on Jacquelyn Frank’s site: The 2009 proposed U.S. budget calls for the elimination of funding for Reading Is Fundamental’ s (RIF) Inexpensive Book Distribution program. The program distributes free books to 4.6 million children and families and runs reading encouragement programs in 20,000 locations in the […]