Posted in Sharon Shinn, Web news on February 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Some Sharon Shinn news first (she’s one of my favourite authors, and writes fantasy with strong romance undertones):
Via her unofficial website: She’s publishing a fifth book in her Mystic & Rider series - hurray! Also, an anthology with four novellas set in each of her worlds (publication date yet to be confirmed) - this sounds strangely familiar to [...]
Posted in John Scalzi, Patricia Briggs on February 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Non-romance related, but still interesting - SF author John Scalzi reviews his income from science-fiction writing in 2006. I’ve no idea if the same applies to romance authors, but this is fascinating info nonetheless. And this reminds me that I’ve his latest mass market paperback “Old Man’s War” in my TBR pile - must read it [...]
Posted in Blog, Thoughts on February 24, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve just spent the past hour trying to organise my blog pages. I’m using this blog to keep track of my reading, and was listing all books (i.e. those read and those to-be-read) on a single page - which was rapidly becoming rather unwieldy.
So… I’ve now created three separate pages, all with hopefully self-explanatory titles:
TBR Pile - Books literally piled up [...]
Posted in Covers, Web news on February 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve a bit of a thing for covers - a striking cover will definitely grab my attention in the store and get me to pick up a book I normally wouldn’t look at
So having a peek at the behind-the-scenes parts fascinates me. Here’s a blog post that goes into some detail on how the cover for one of Pyr’s (an SF [...]
Posted in Ally Carter, Elizabeth Hoyt, Elizabeth Peters, Emma Holly, John Scalzi, Patricia Briggs, Roberta Gellis, TBR on February 17, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been a bit lazy with blog updates lately. Ummm… I’m very busy at work. Is that a valid excuse? Seriously, I haven’t even enough time to read new books lately, let alone go blog-hopping. I need a holiday.
Moving on to book-related stuff, I received a massive delivery from Amazon yesterday - and I didn’t [...]
Posted in Dorothy Sayers, Jim Butcher, Reviews, Roberta Gellis on February 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve had a run of really good books lately, but no time at all to blog about them. So in an attempt to catch up, here are quick summaries of some recent reads that I really really enjoyed.
Gaudy Night (Dorothy L Sayers) - Well, Rosario assured me I would love this, and I did. This [...]
Posted in Naomi Novik, Web news on February 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Breaking news - Naomi Novik’s fourth Temeraire book will be called “Empire of Ivory” and is due out October this year. Hurray!
Posted in Eloisa James, Reviews on February 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just finished reading “Pleasure for Pleasure”, the final book in Eloisa James‘ Essex Sisters series. I actually read the first three books (”Much Ado About You”, “Kiss Me, Annabel” and “The Taming of the Duke” 
in early January, but didn’t want to blog about them until I had completed the whole series.
Ms James is a new-to-me [...]
Posted in Charlaine Harris, Janet Evanovich, Rachel Caine on February 5, 2007 | No Comments »
I haven’t had much time to visit authors’ websites lately - but here’s the results of some site surfing today.
Courtesy of Rachel Caine’s website - the cover of a new anthology called “Many Bloody Returns”. This will have short stories from authors including Charlaine Harris (a Sookie Stackhouse story), Kelley Armstrong (I believe her contribution will be set [...]
Posted in Sherrilyn Kenyon, Web news on February 3, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s now February and for some reason, instead of being really cold and gloomy, it’s a very sunny and warm spring-like day here in London. I’m not complaining!
Here’s an interview with Sherrilyn Kenyon (via SFBC). It’s a rather long article, but contains some interesting bits of info - well worth reading! Her books aren’t usually on my [...]
