Ana: I’m [Bill S. Preston, esquire] Ana, Romance reader at heart…Thea: And I’m [“Ted” Theodore Logan] Thea, Speculative Fiction junkie… Ana & Thea: And we’re…[Wyld Stallyns] BOOK SMUGGLERS!!!!!!! *play facemelting riffs on air guitars* We’ve brought you some of…
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Who: Li, of the fantastic book review blog Me and My Books. Li is another blogger who we stalk on the regular–and it shows in TBR purchases. It is because of Li that we met some of our favorite…
Who: Kate, the incredibly intelligent and wonderful woman that runs the review blog What Kate’s Reading. Kate runs a fantastic blog, reviewing historical fiction, academic works, non-fiction, romance, and home of the infamous ‘Unbuttoned Yet Tucked In’ series (in…
Day 5 of Smugglivus Who: Carolyn Jean from The Thrillionth Page The Thrillionth Page is one of our favorite blogs and it is all down to the gloriously creative CJ. Her reviews come in many formats: thoughts as she…
Day 5 of Smugglivus Who: Kmont from Lurv a la Mode Kmont in one word: cool. We love her very in-depth reviews of Romance (mostly paranormal), Fantasy and SCi Fi . Her sense of humor is of that kind…
Day 4 of Smugglivus Who: Lisa Trevethan of Urban Fantasy Land Lisa is one of the contributors for Urban Fantasy Land, a fantastic blog for all your Urban Fantasy needs in any format: books, comics, tv and movies. New…
Day 4 of Smugglivus Who: Karen Mahoney, writer of YA and Urban Fantasy whose first story will be published in 2009. She talks about her writing and life at her livejournal: Karen Mahoney. Karen is one of our buddies…
Day 4 of SmugglivusWho: Angiegirl (Angie), solo blogger that runs the EEEEVIL review blog, Angieville. (Why EEEEVIL? Because Angie is single-handedly responsible for quadrupling Thea’s TBR this year.) Angie’s blog is one we stalk for book recommendations–she always has…
Day 4 of SmugglivusWho: The Discriminating Fangirl (aka “TDF”), geek blogger extraordinaire of The Discriminating Fangirl. From the second we saw her tagline: “pop culture + geekery = happiness” …we knew it was love. TDF runs an eclectic blog,…
Day 3 of Smugglivus Who: Heather, the pioneering gal behind the dedicated Science Fiction Romance site, The Galaxy Express! Heather runs a true, dedicated niche blog–and though you might think Science Fiction Romance is too narrow a genre classification…
We take a break from our Smugglivus coverage to make a few quick announcements! We have TWO giveaway winners to announce! Giveaway with Susan Holloway Scott: The lucky winner of The King’s Favorite is: Catie Giveaway with Meljean Brook:…
Day 3 of Smugglivus Who: Aidan Moher, designer, aspiring author and avid reader. Aidan runs A Dribble of Ink, a review blog dedicated to bringing news, interviews, and book reviews for all things speculative fiction. Aidan’s blog offers some…
Day 3 of Smugglivus Who: Jessica, who writes the fabulous Racy Romance Reviews blog, a new (and very welcomed) addition to the blogsphere. Jessica is an academic professor that writes not only incredibly in-depth reviews of Romance Novels but…
Day 3 of Smugglivus Who: Graeme Flory, the fantasy mogul behind Graeme’s Fantasy Book Reviews. Graeme runs a most fantastic (and very respected) blog: full of in-depth reviews of mostly Fantasy and Sci-fi books (although he tried his hand…
Who: Kristen, who runs the fabulous Fantasy Cafe book review blog. Kristen is another wonderful blogger we have met this year, and we cannot help but marvel at her consistent, in-depth and clear-headed reviews. Fantasy Cafe mainly reviews–you guessed…
Who: Tia Nevitt, the creator of fabulous niche blog, Fantasy Debut. Recently Tia took on an extra pair of hands to run her growing site, and now Mulluane contributes to debut showcases, book reviews, etc. Tia’s Fantasy Debut Showcases…
Day 2 of Smugglivus Who: Ciara, the aspiring (and inspiring) author behind Ciaralira Ciara provides great insight into writing by posting about the craft: book recommendations, thoughts and tips and desert island video interviews with other writers. She also…
Day 2 of Smugglivus Who: Trin and Thrinidir, two of the four folks that run the SFF book review blog, Realms of Speculative Fiction. Realms provides awesome reviews of a wide variety of books–everything from epic fantasy to space…
Day 1 of Smugglivus Who: Holly, with the help of Casee and Ames. Holly and Casee are two of the ladies in charge of the fabulous book review blog, The Book Binge. Ames also reviews books over at her…
Day 1 of Smugglivus Who: Katie(babs), the fantastic force of nature behind multiple blogs and review pages online. Katie is one of the first people to ever make us feel at home to blogging, always coming over to comment…
After seemingly countless days of pre-countdown, followed by 25 days of countdown craziness with authors guest blogging and more giveaways than we can count, we finally made it! Smugglivus is here!!! Hooray!!! So what will happen next? For the…
Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahh, the holidays. The time of frantic, scrambling blind panic for gifts, hearty eating, heavy drinking, and most of all–MOVIEGOING! In the month of December, moviehouses play their best hands, releasing the films they hope will secure…
Day 24 (2 days to Smugglivus and counting) We are getting to the end of our Countdown to Smugglivus and our last countdown guest is Erin Galloway, Manager of Marketing for Dorchester Publishing with what we can expect from…
Day 23 (3 days to Smugglivus and counting) Who: Meljean Brook, writer of Paranormal Romance and Steampunk (soon to be published). We are admittedly, Meljean Brook’s fangirls: we love her Guardian series (one of the best Paranormal series out…
For this month’s dare we invited Marg from Reading Adventures – we invited Marg because, well, she explain it all in her post. Here it goes: Title: It Author: Stephen King Genre: Horror Stand alone/Series: Stand Alone Why Did…