[Writer Blog] Series Books vs. Sequence Books
Last week I read Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore. For a reader of any age who enjoys smart and funny paranormal romance (think more ghosts and demons rather than vampires) I highly recommend Rosemary. When it comes to vampires – you can’t go wrong with Rachel Caine. Both authors are “Young Adult” but (as any [...]
[Book Review] ROBOPOCALYPSE by Daniel H. Wilson via SFSIGNAL
About three weeks before I started working for John DeNardo at SFSIgnal, I won a copy of Daniel H. Wilson‘s Robopocalypse. It took me a few weeks to get to reading it due to deadlines, conventions, and another book in my queue. In that time, Robopocalypse seemed to be everywhere. I wasn’t sure I was [...]
[Writer Blog] – Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasures. We all have them. Mine are musicals: SCRUBS: MY MUSICAL, DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG-BLOG, Man of La Mancha, Forever Plaid, etc. I also love shows that are music intensive without being musicals, like Phineas and Ferb and MegaMind. Most of those I can probably get a “what’s so guilty about THOSE? Those shows ROCK!” [...]
[Writer Blog][Book Review] Time Travel
One of the news pieces running around the internet amid stories and recaps of the Royal Wedding – but before the reports of Osama bin Laden’s end – was the announcement of China banning time travel from television and movie themes (and I presume that would extend to books as well). In their opinion, storylines [...]
The St. Charles House – Stephen Banister – DarkStar Books
I know I’ve been bad about keeping up with the “What I’ve Been Reading” segments on the blog. I’m going to try to be better about that. Lately, I’ve been reading quite a bit of Young Adult stuff and enjoying it. But…I’m going to restart this segment with one of the NON Young Adult books [...]
Guilty Pleasures and Working the Plan
I have a new “guilty pleasure”. Well, I’m starting a new guilty pleasure. Carolyn Hennesy’s Pandora series. I picked up the first one at Half-Price Books because of an inside joke I had with Gordon van Gelder, about Pandora. Now I want to read the rest of the series. Pandora Gets Jealous Price: $6.99 (27 [...]
What I’m Reading – Media Tie In & Supermodels
I haven’t done a “what I’m reading” post in a very long time. I apologize for that, but I have been reading as well as writing. Confessions of a Werewolf Supermodel Price: $0.01 (23 customer reviews) 87 used & new available from $0.01 My friend, Debbie, introduced me to this book. I read it in [...]
YA Reading Musings
I’ve read a couple of decent YA novels in the recent past. One I got at a library sale, and it ended up being somewhere down in the series – so I should give it a better shot by reading the first couple of books. The second was Inkheart by Cordelia Funke (soon to be [...]
What I’m Reading – Burn Notice
Okay, so I give up numbering these things. I’ve forgotten. And I’m changing to titles rather than authors… Today’s offering — a media tie-in. Burn Notice: The Fix Price: $7.99 (46 customer reviews) 91 used & new available from $0.01 Let me preface this by saying I’m a huge proponent on media tie-in. I’m not [...]
What I’m Reading #11 – Spider Robinson
Very Bad Deaths Price: $18.00 (27 customer reviews) 61 used & new available from $0.01 This one went in a direction I didn’t quite expect. That’s what I get from buying a book based on the first sentence and having read some of his Callahan’s books. It’s a good book, and doesn’t go as far [...]
