Like many others, I won’t be too sad to say goodbye to 2016! I mean, in many respects it was a pretty crappy year. Losing Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds at the very end nearly pushed me over the edge. I also faced some blogging challenges this year. Not only did I have numerous technical […]
I’ve been participating in blog tours for several years, and most of them have been smooth sailing. But in recent months, I’ve had two REALLY bad experiences with blog tours, and so I’ve decided not to seek them out anymore. First of all, my old WordPress.com blog was shut down because apparently, blog tours are […]
This is the weekend I’m finally taking the plunge and changing over to a new theme on Books, Bones & Buffy. This TERRIFIES me, because it’s the first new theme I’ve had in nearly four years of blogging! It’s one thing to update your old theme, which I’ve done numerous times, but switching themes means […]
Only a few weeks ago, I had a crisis while trying to rate A Darker Shade of Magic, and on a whim, I decided I would no longer use star ratings, but rather a 1-10 numbered rating system. This worked for a few reviews, but now I’m changing my mind. I actually much prefer stars, […]
As you may have heard, Strange Chemistry, the little sister and young adult publishing arm of Angry Robot Books, has closed its doors. It makes me sad to think of all the books that won’t be published by Strange Chemistry, but I’m very happy to say that in the past year and a half, I […]
You know me as an avid reader and blogger, but below the surface, well, let’s just say there’s more than meets the eye. I’ve seen these personal top ten posts floating around, and after reading Kimba at the Caffeinated Book Review’s post, I knew I had to post one of my own. Thanks for the […]
Here we are, near the end of the year, again! I feel the years go by so quickly these days, and after a while everything becomes a blur. So I wanted to stop and pause today and wish every one of my followers and readers a wonderful holiday, no matter how you celebrate! That photo […]
National Novel Writing Month, more fondly known as NaNoWriMo, is back! Writers, both professional and amateur, hunker down for thirty days of exhausting, frustrating and exhilarating madness. Having participated twice before, I’m well aware of the folly of attempting NaNoWriMo. You must be willing to throw caution to the wind, write like a fiend every […]
So, I just finished a book. And I loved it. It was well-written, well-paced and kept me turning pages way into the night. Which is what it was supposed to do. But there’s one small thing that sort of ruined it for me. I knew there was a big twist somewhere in the story. In […]
It’s not a secret that book bloggers are also book hoarders. We blithely add books to our TBR piles on a daily basis, often without consulting the Big Picture, which is this: How many promises have we already made to authors and publishers, and will we even be able to get to those new books […]