Welcome to Smugglivus 2017! Throughout this month, we will have guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2017, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2018, and more. Our next Smugglivus guest is Juliet Kemp, SFF writer and author of “Voices of the Sea”, an upcoming 2018 Book Smugglers novella! I’ve done a lot of reading this year. Now, as a reader, I can be something of a delicate emotional flower. I don’t like grimdark and I don’t read horror (and my definition of both relies heavily on “do I have to read this with my eyes shut?”). I can’t handle things that make me despair of humanity — if I wanted that, let’s face it, I could read the sodding news. At the best of times, I strongly prefer books that in some sense cheer me up; and this year, that’s gone at least double. So, for me, 2017 has been about finding books to get me through it. Books that make me feel like, perhaps, everything will, eventually, be OK, or at least make me feel like I can get up in the morning. (Although staying up late reading a […]