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Picture Book Contest: Day 1

12 September 2011 Jackie 8

The monkey officially begins school right now. Yes, right now at 8:30am the doors to his preschool open and he’s running through them.  We’re both so excited.  He’s been looking forward to the start of school, why I’m not really sure, but he loves school.  Me, I’ve been looking forward […]

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Death Echo by Elizabeth Lowell

11 September 2011 Casey 3

Death Echo was the first book by  Elizabeth Lowell that I’ve read. Despite the many rave reviews I’ve heard about her books, I just can’t say the same for Death Echo.  With some arm-twisting, St. Kilda and Emma are tracking a yacht named Blackbird, a dead ringer for another ship that […]

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Sunday Surprise!

11 September 2011 Jackie 0

Blue Moon by Lori Handeland Miniwa, Wisconsin is under siege, but not by the usual summer tourists. The area’s normally shy wolf population has begun stalking human prey, and their victims have been disappearing…or worse. Something is happening in the woods. Something brutal and primitive… Officer Jessie McQuade has seen […]

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Frostbound by Sharon Ashwood

10 September 2011 Nicole 2

I’d been putting off reading my ARC of Frostbound by Sharon Ashwood for a while because it’s the fourth in her Dark Forgotten series.  Um…yeah…thinking I should have read this one sooner! While it is the fourth, it works as a standalone, I didn’t feel lost and if it hadn’t […]

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Dark Awakening by Kendra Leigh Castle

9 September 2011 Casey 0

Usually in the paranormal world, vampires and shapeshifters are two very separate creatures. However, in Kendra Leigh Castle’s Dark Awakening, she breaks all those barriers, creating a highly unique world where vampires are shapeshifters. For centuries, shapeshifting vampire Tynan MacGillivray has prowled the night as an outcast, valued only for his ferocious […]

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The Dark Griffin by K.J. Taylor

8 September 2011 Nikki R 0

When I read the synopsis for The Dark Griffin, I have to admit, I wasn’t all that excited.  I’m a history nut, and so I’m also very interested in mythology, but most of the time mythology in fiction, for me anyway, ends up being a big mess.  However, while I […]

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Guest Author: Melanie Card

8 September 2011 Jackie 13

I am excited to welcome author Melanie Card, who has just released the fabulous Ward Against Death. Twenty-year-old Ward de Ath expected this to be a simple job bring a nobleman s daughter back from the dead for fifteen minutes, let her family say good-bye, and launch his fledgling career […]

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Red Run by Kami Garcia

7 September 2011 Jackie 0

I love anthologies, especially since that’s how I generally find new authors to read. It’s also a great way to try several authors in a genre one doesn’t typically gravitate towards. For me, I’m not a big young adult fan, so I don’t go looking in the young adult section […]

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Superman and Hunters

7 September 2011 Jackie 0

The latest Moon Daughters comic is out and it looks like Maggie, Iris and Camille may have an unexpected visitor. Jeri Smith-Ready has posted the sixth chapter to her online serial, Let It Bleed.  If you haven’t read the previous chapters, here they are: One, Two, Three, Four and Five. […]

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Casey’s Literary Rants

7 September 2011 Casey 0

In which I rant about good journalism Before I really start this rant I have a few things I need to say. On August 23, Jackie (NOT ME) went to the Carrie Vaughn signing at Schulers Books (and Music) in Lansing, Michigan. (I live in Florida and couldn’t make the […]