Blog Archive
March Poll for Favorite Books by Favorite Authors
This spring our three pollsters – LinnieGayl, Cindy, and Lee – are polling again for your favorite books by your favorite authors to keep these bouquets fresh and updated. In March they polled for: Catherine Anderson...
Win an Audio Book Edition of Delicious by Sherry Thomas (Contest Now Closed)
Ready to loose yourself in the Delicious prose of Sherry Thomas? Thanks to the author’s generosity, we’ve got two copies of Sherry’s new audio book edition of Delicious to give away. It retails for $44.95. Here’s...
Thor and Me (And Who Was It For You?)
The Hulk was too green. Wolverine was just too brooding (and hairy). And Archie? Well, despite the fierce (and inexplicable) competition raging between Betty and rich uber-bitch Veronica, I thought he was a geek. In my...
Eagerly Awaiting for May
AAR Staff again weighs in with which coming May books they are dying to read. Title and Author Reviewer To Beguile a Beast by Elizabeth Hoyt Lynn, Heather, Lee, Rike, Lea, Rachel, Jane, Abi, Katie, Ellen...
Rita Nominations: Sandy and Lynn’s Take
Sandy’s Take Results are in and the dust is settled. The headline for me is I had fewer WTF reactions than in previous years. Still:
2009 Rita Nominations
The calls are going out today to 2009 Rita and Golden Heart finalists. Official results are going up at the RWA site and Twitter is also hopping. Just search for hashtag #rwanoms for a live feed....
The Delights of Book Festivals
While I haven’t been to RWA, I have been able to celebrate books and reading in a more local arena. I have spent the past few days attending numerous events at the Virginia Festival of the...
Creative Book Promotion
At least in the romance genre, it has become a standard technique for authors to hold regular giveaways in exchange for readers signing up for the author’s newsletter, with the usual prize a couple of free...
Can One Really Condense a Full-length Novel into a Book Trailer?
Whenever I’m looking forward to a book release, I always monitor the message boards very carefully for any information—interviews with the authors, excerpts, reviews, etc. Lately, it’s been Smooth Talking Stranger, Lisa Kleypas’s upcoming contemporary romance,...