For a while now, I've realized one of my first ways of deciding if I want to read a book was by looking at its cover. Not the content of the cover, but the quality of it.

Sometimes it's obvious a book is self published:

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I was looking for new books, and this cover caught my eye.


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Tor.com does a free ebook of the month, and this month's is A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge! I almost never reread books, I don't have the time, but I've reread that series and want to read it again.

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What better thing to get in the mail than a delivery of books? After seeing my review of her books, the author very kindly offered to send me autographed copies of them. I love them! Now I just need to find the perfect place to display them ( Read more... )

I'm on a few authors' mailing lists, and one of them mentioned they wrote a book for this collection: Gypsies After Dark: A Collection of Brand New Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance Novels. 22 books. For how much? 99 cents. That's 22 books, not short stories or something. Novels. And from an actual publisher, too! I don't read urban fantasy ( Read more... )

Some publisher sent me a listing for a new book.

Just Pubbed! The Sugar Daddy Series Book One
My Sugar Daddy

Yes, they use "Pubbed". Ugh!

Struggling single mother Laura McGill figures she has nothing to lose and everything to gain when she impulsively signs up online to meet a sugar daddy. After losing her virginity to a two-timing married man ( Read more... )

Amazon and B&N both sent me emails today, telling me that I have a credit from some class action suit about ebooks. The B&N didn't list an amount, but Amazon's given me an almost $75 ($72.60) credit. WOOT! I don't expect B&N's to be much, as I only ever bought three or four ebooks from them, but I'm impressed at how much Amazon's is ( Read more... )

I usually don't do memes, but this one is about books, and I'm having a seriously hard time getting my brain back into work mode, so here goes!

Questions stolen from irreparable. 40 of them, but I'm only going to use the ones I like, because I'm totally a rebel that way.

1: Currently Reading

Space Station Rat by Michael J. Daley

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Pounded by President Bigfoot


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I look though lots and lots of books when searching for ones to read. When I find something odd, cool, wacky, or WTFish, I usually just frown or chuckle at it, then move on. However, after posting about that women who credited her dark side as a co-author, I thought now and then it might be amusing to post a collection of odd things I find while ( Read more... )