Tag: other people’s books
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More on reading La cite maudite by Elodie Tirel
Reading an original work in French is surprisingly fun even if I can’t understand half the words!
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Reading Luna: La Cite Maudite by Elodie Tirel
In which I begin reading a novel in original French for the first time, and oh hey, I can actually pick up on the action. Fantastique!
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Missed CoyoteCon, oops, and a fellow author recommendation!
Y’all know how I said I was going to be participating in CoyoteCon this past weekend? Um, yeah, well, that kind of fell through with the whole suddenly having to be in the hospital for five days thing I just had to do. Happily I’m fine now, but I was sad to miss the CoyoteCon…
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Plug for Crossed Genre and the Aether Age
The folks over at Crossed Genres have released their first novel: A Festival of Skeletons, by New Zealand author R.J. Astruc. It’s described as a novel of “zombies, necromancers, merkind, serial killers and cross-dressing”, so if that sounds fun, you might want to check it out! It’s available from Amazon in both print and Kindle…
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Signal boosting: Call for submissions for Gay City anthology
Forwarding this on behalf of Eric Andrews-Katz, mentioned below. If you think this might be your cup of tea, follow the link he provides over to information about his anthology! Howdy, Please find below an Open Call for submission for both Writers and Artists/comics/photographers for the new anthology, Gay City. Vol. 4 – At Second…
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Hurray! I met Rachel Caine!
And now for today’s major reason I was happy to avert the threat of the bug from work: rachelcaine had a reading tonight at Third Place Books. As I’ve been a fan of her Weather Warden books for a while and as Third Place is literally right down the hill from my house, I pretty…
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Zoe Archer, you have my Attention
So the fine ladies over at Smart Bitches have been doing a book club thing lately, and their latest title is Scoundrel, by Zoe Archer. They posted about it this morning, and as soon as I saw the blurb and the cover, I knew I was going to have to read it. To wit: And…
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Aether Age anthology and Hadley Rille 5K contest!
I just mentioned this on my personal blog, but it’s worth mentioning here: my fellow Outer Alliance member Brandon Bell is the editor of what promises to be a fun anthology, The Aether Age: Helios. You should go over and pre-order it, not only because it sounds fun, but also because its publisher, Hadley Rille…
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Some potential Awesome
Courtesy of , I hear tell of a forthcoming anthology that involves the words “lesbian” and “steampunk”. I do believe I shall have to check this out, and if I can score a review ARC, I will totally be bumping it up to the top of my reading queue. More details over here! Oh, and…
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Random Publicity Week
Author Darcy Pattison had a lovely idea, or so I learned on the Twitternets: Random Publicity Week, encouraging all of us to take the time to do that Goodreads or Amazon or B&N review to support books by our friends and fellow authors. You know how this works: you’ve been swearing up and down you’d…