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Speaking of Audiobooks: Audible Giveaway and Reviews (Contest Closed)
June Is Audiobook Month (JIAM) and we are celebrating! We’re expressing our support for the audiobook industry today with an Audible membership giveaway. If you are already a member, you know this means more books for…
What's the Most Useless Kitchen Applicance?
What’s the most useless kitchen appliance? After my experience this week I’ve concluded it’s the garbage disposal. I lived for years without a garbage disposal (not allowed in my Chicago building). I did have a disposal…
Eagerly Awaiting in July
If you enjoy historical romance, July looks like it’s going to be a big month! Several favorite authors have releases this month, with new books coming from Sherry Thomas, Loretta Chase, Carrie Lofty, and Elizabeth Hoyt,…
Hating Downton Abbey Series Two
I have a warm place in my heart for the first season of Downton Abbey. My best girlfriend and I spent a beautiful spring day indoors, watching the entire series in one sitting. We had a…
Amazon Acquires Avalon Books – What Next?
Unless you’re a librarian, or a reader who checks out lots of genre fiction from your library, Avalon Books has probably flown under your radar. Avalon is a niche publisher specializing in the library market, selling…
Earworm of the day: Times Square
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0c7MPgKm54Times Square is not an earworm for me in the sense that I sing it myself all day long, instead I press the “repeat button” and listen to it five times in a row or more.…
Books with Buzz: Nalini Singh Interview and Five-Book Giveaway (Contest Closed)
The minute I read Nalini Singh’s Slave of Sensation, I knew we had something special in our hands. In the intervening six, short years, Nalini has published fifteen stories in her thought-provoking Psy/Changeling series, each of…
