Some very nice things were said over at Auntie's Alcove:

"One of the things that most surprised me was how literary the book was. That adjective came to me while I was reading the story, and afterward, I read a thing on the author's Goodreads page about how she's been deemed too literary for regular readers and too regular to be classed as ( Read more... )

The Bowl of Night is the third of the Bast mysteries, and Edghill continues her exploration of the 1990s New York City NeoPagan scene. Bast has been a pagan a long time, long enough that she has finally separated from her coven and is expected to form her own. She keeps postponing that because responsibility is something she doesn’t relish (despite ( Read more... )

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Amy Sterling Casil's new publishing concern Chameleon Publishing just finished the first of its three market validation surveys (if you hurry, you can still participate in the survey.) She talks about the value of books, the value to readers--and the fact that neither New York publishing nor Amazon.com has a clue about what readers what. However, ( Read more... )

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You do *not* use a toothpick to mark your place in a library book. How do I know if it is a used toothpick?

(Because it sticks to the page, that's how...)

#LibraryHorrorStories

Eventually, I will have to send them take-down notices. Right now, I am in serious Life, Interrupted so it won't happen this week.

Remember that these sites exist to try and steal from you, or sell you an overpriced item they stole from someone else. Beware. The last one was a credit card scraper.

Including our obligation to stand up and say "I read. I read whenever I can."

Here's Neil.

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She was a staff photographer at Life Magazine from 1945-1972 when the magazine went to monthly, and over forty of the covers were her photographs. But very little is recorded about Nina Leen...which may have been how she liked it. She had a flair for photographing animals, and her slice of Midwestern life will ring a bell for many folks. They ( Read more... )