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THE INKPOT IS MOVING TO BLOGGER!!!!
After nearly four years on Livejournal, the Inkpot is moving to blogger! Our new address on the web is http://enchantedinkpot.blogspot.com/
And to help celebrate our move, we are throwing our annual Inkies Extravaganza Book Giveaway for 2012! Take a look at the three piles of books you can win! And all you have to do to win one of these fabulous ( Read more... ) -
Fully Fledged Shamelessness
Sorry we weren't around last week. Apparently, some of our shamelessnesses weren't quite ripe yet. They needed another week on the vine before I could pluck them.
But now, fully matured, here's our Shameless Saturday post!
Starting off with news of a new sale!!! Always a great opener, don't you think? Anna Staniszewski's follow ups to MY VERY ( Read more... ) -
Interview with Tim Collins, author of DIARY OF A WIMPY VAMPIRE and ADVENTURES OF A WIMPY WEREWOLF
I am delighted to welcome to the Inkpot Tim Collins, who has written the award winning humorous YA fantasy series DIARY OF A WIMPY VAMPIRE, DIARY OF A WIMPY VAMPIRE 2: PRINCE OF DORKNESS and ADVENTURES OF A WIMPY WEREWOLF, which are best described as TWILIGHT meets THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE.
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Interview with Kate Coombs author of HANS MY HEDGEHOG
Today we have a special treat. An Inkie gets to interview one of our own! Kate Coombs is releasing an adorable retelling of Hans My Hedgehog, a classic Grimm’s Brothers Fairytale. This children’s tale is illustrated by John Nickle and is being released by Atheneum.
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Interview with Sarah Prineas about WINTERLING!
Sarah, thank you so much for visiting The Enchanted Inkpot, where I think you'll find many long-time MAGIC THIEF fans happy to greet you (see those waving white handkerchiefs over there? and the trays of freshly-baked biscuits there on the other side? and the home made dragon posters every which where?). I have been looking forward to WINTERLING ( Read more... ) -
Interview with Anne Nesbet
It’s always exciting when the Inkies get to interview one of our own for a new book. But when it’s also an author’s debut book and happens to be a darn good read, that’s even better!
Anne Nesbet has just released A CABINET OF EARTHS with Harper Collins. The Goodreads summary is here:
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The Flying Snowman (or, When Disbelief Unsuspends)
A while ago, John Scalzi had a post on his blog about what he terms “the flying snowman.” The post and comments there are worth reading, but basically, it’s the question of when an element in a work of speculative fiction suddenly makes the reader snap out of it and say, “That’s ridiculous! That couldn’t happen!” In other words, where the ( Read more... ) -
Apocalypse of Shamelessness
2012 may be the year the world ends, but we've still got eleven months of shameless news, and we're starting off the year with a bang!
Anne Nesbet's THE CABINET OF EARTHS hit shelves this week, to some massive fanfare among critics:
“a-shimmer with magic” (Horn Book ( Read more... ) -
CINDER!! Interview with Marissa Meyer
One of the greatest perks about being an Inkie is that I have been incredibly fortunate enough to read advanced copies of amazing books and interview the genius authors behind them. So I pretty much was beside myself when Marissa Meyer agreed to let me interview her and I received my copy of Cinder. I literally devoured, inhaled, consumed that book ( Read more... )
