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Dear Not-the-person-I-was-talking-about-before Author,

Please stop writing women. In the words of lolcats, "you're doing it wrong." I have mentioned this to you beforeFast pace? You've got it. Tight political thriller/historical conspiracy Indy Jones/Da Vinci Code action? Got it in spades. But women? Not so much ( Read more... )

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I'm about two to four weeks away from something completely novel... having read all my review books. ALL of them. Oh, I have more coming, but for the first time since I started, I won't have a huge queue; by the end of September I should be done. Not with reviewing, but with the entire backlog, waiting for future book offers to go on ( Read more... )

I've commented there - and keep meaning to go back now that I'm not whipping through my flist in a Stratford cafe; I will be soon, promise, Karen - but wanted to bring this to my LJ for some more pondering out loud.

[R]eviews are completely and utterly subjective. That in almost every case, a review isn't about what's being reviewed, it's about ( Read more... )

The last thing to clear out in my office is this black thing with drawers that I bagged from my grandfather's office. But I haven't had the cleaning inclination to go deal with it. Spring fever, I guess, or mostly "I want it to be Media*West time so bad I can taste it ( Read more... )

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Just got a forwarded email regarding my last review, with the author stating "This lady knows her business!" (Apparently even the parts where I was saying "That didn't work ( Read more... )

Dear somewhat unclear on the concept authors:

Yes, when writing books in a series, it is a good thing to reference previous books in a series. That's not really there to remind faithful readers so much as it is to coax people who've come into your universe a day late and a dollar short to go buy up the previous books ( Read more... )