BEA day uno

Entrance to BEA
BEA day 1 was awesome. AWESOME. I walked around with glee, and I met some very cool, very nice bloggers and authors, but ok, I’m old because after 4 hours I was tired and hungry and after 6 I was done. It may have been the 50 pounds or so of books I was carrying [...]

Interesting..

Hush, hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
An interesting YA – I’m drawn to this cover! I found this via Steph Su reads while I was surfing online today. This book comes out in October. The author’s website says:
Falling in love was never so easy . . . or so deadly.
High school sophomore Nora Grey is irritated to find herself partnered in [...]

Going to BEA?

Well I’ve been kind of sick this week but I’m getting better so by this weekend I hope I can keep my plans:
 
Since it is in NYC and I’m about 30 min away, I’m actually going to go to my first ever book convention: Book Expo America!
 
I also got involved in the Book Blogger signing that the [...]

The Better To Hold You by Alisa Sheckley

The Better to Hold You by Alisa Sheckley
I got this book from the awesome avidbookreader.com. The review there was so interesting I was amazed I got there first to win the book!

 
The Premise: This book centers on a veterinarian, Abra Barrow, who lives and works in Manhattan. Her husband Hunter is a journalist, and he’s just come home [...]

Steampunk – the Next Big Thing?

Steampunk

 
Above artwork is “Steampunk” by John Coulthart
 
Is Steampunk the new trend in the fantasy genre? I’m beginning to see it everywhere I look. But what is it? The image above has tongue-in-cheek a formula Jeff VanderMeer came up with: Mad Scientist Inventor [invention (steam x airship or metal man / baroque stylings) x (pseudo) Victorian setting] + progressive [...]

Bad to the Bone by Jeri Smith-Ready

Bad to the Bone
Jeri Smith-Ready

This is the second book in the WVMP series by Jeri Smith-Ready. The main character is college student and reformed con-artist, Ciara Griffen, who finds out that the DJs at the radio station she’s doing PR for are all real vampires. Ciara, being the enterprising marketing student that she is, uses [...]

Author Interview: Lili St. Crow

I decided to do something I’ve never done before in this blog. An author interview. ooOooo!! Very exciting!
I just reviewed Lili St. Crow’s new book, Strange Angels (link to vox / wordpress / LJ)  and I sent her some questions about the series and some general questions about being an author. She reveals some interesting [...]

Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

Strange Angels
Lili St. Crow

Note: this review is based on an ARC I received from the publisher
 
Premise: Dru Anderson knows all about scary creatures like werewulfen, suckers, gator-spirits, chupacabras, ghosts, and zombies and she’s helped her dad track and kill a few. It’s a rough life but Dru has been doing this since her grandmother died and [...]

Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James

Practice Makes Perfect
Julie James

I’ve heard a good things online about Julie James so when jmc_bookrelated offered me a copy of Practice Made Perfect (thank you), I jumped at the chance to read it, especially since I wasn’t seeing this book in my library system or in my closest bookstore (why that is I have no [...]

Book Art – Thomas Allen

 

 

Cool Link -
http://paintalicious.org/2008/11/20/thomas-allens-book-art-photography
“American photographer Thomas Allen constructs witty and clever dioramas using figures cut from the covers of old pulp paperbacks. Using salacious pulp art drawing’s of the ’40s and ’50s that covered books such as ” I Married a Dead Man” and ” Marihuana Girl’, Allen constructs one set of pictures up close while [...]