So… I was really hoping to get up a review of Dragon Sword and Wind Child by Noriko Ogiwara this past week, but I’m still working on it. I was just wiped out all week long so trying to review it after work in the evenings wasn’t getting me anywhere. Now that I have a sore throat, I suspect being exhausted was due to fighting off a cold all week. Just great… Anyway, I am going to try to get […]

This week brought one ARC and one review copy. I’m looking forward to both of them, but I’m especially excited about the first one since it’s one I’ve been interested in for a little while now. Songs of the Earth by Elspeth Cooper This is a debut novel and the first volume in a new series, The Wild Hunt. Songs of the Earth was released in the UK last year, and it is going to be released in the US […]

Today Laini Taylor announced the title of the sequel to her fantastic novel, Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Days of Blood and Starlight – I love it! It is supposed to be published in the fall of this year, meaning I now have a new very highly anticipated book of 2012 to look forward to. Daughter of Smoke and Bone was one of my very favorite novels of 2011 (review). There is a description for it that is also wonderful: […]

There are two giveaway winners that have been drawn. I’ve sent the book out for the Select a Book Giveaway already and Touch of Power should be going out soon too if it hasn’t already. The winner of the Select a Book Giveaway is: Rochelle from Indiana The winner of Touch of Power is: Mary from Texas Congratulations, and I hope you both enjoy the books! Now I am going to try to make progress on a review of The […]

The winner of the nine books has been drawn and they are all boxed up and ready to mail! The winner is: Misty from Texas Congratulations, and I hope you enjoy all the books!

If you checked in here anytime between Friday afternoon and Sunday night, you would have seen a post where Maria V. Snyder talked about how she develops fantasy maps for her books.  I have decided to remove this post; if you’d like to read it, you can see it at Seeing Night Book Reviews.  In fact, I chose to remove it specifically because you can read it elsewhere. As I explained to the publicist who contacted me about the book […]