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It struck me that you guys have had to read about me yammering on for a while now, without a Break for Sanity or at least a book giveaway to make it worth your while. So I asked the lovely Saundra Mitchell, whose the Vespertine reminds me of a YA Sarah Waters's Affinity (tragic, romantic, magical, historical) to come make a post. And she brought ( Read more... )

Thanks to y'all for the very thoughtful response to yesterday's post! It got mentioned on the Publisher's Weekly blog, so I am currently feeling famous ( Read more... )

So, I love reading books. This is probably not going to come as a huge shock to anyone. I also love writing books. Again... not breaking news ( Read more... )

So I was grumbling to people, as I do, about books. And at one point I was saying 'Oh, how can someone want Character A and Character B to get together?' And I was answered: 'Well, they're attractive, and get on well...' To which I: 'But surely that's not enoughObviously it is enough in real life, at least initially. But just as I demand little ( Read more... )

It being Sunday, I am combining my daily routine of writing with the frenzied hunted air of a hamster taped to a laptop with thinking thinky thoughts about books.

Spinning off of same, here is a guest blog on Books Sarah Rees Brennan Would Like to See As Movies. In which I mainly complain about movies I do not like, because that is the way I roll ( Read more... )

I would be remiss in my author-ly duties if I did not point out to you that I was asked to do a Christmas post on some of my favourite things in one of my favourite book blogs, and that post is here.I show myself to be a person of pretty low moral character, willing to commit murder for Megan Whalen Turner and everything ( Read more... )