Welcome to another Sunday edition of our Smugglers’ Stash & News. First up, we’ve got some fan-freakin-tastic news. Bloomsbury Retracts Cover: On Thursday afternoon, Bloomsbury officially announced that they will no longer be printing the offending cover of Magic…
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“Inspirations and Influences” is a new series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free reign so they can go…
Title: Three Days to Dead Author: Kelly Meding Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Dell Publication Date: November 2009 Paperback: 416 pages Stand alone or series: First book in the Dredge City Urban Fantasy series How did I get this book:…
Hi folks, and welcome to another Sunday roundup on The Book Smugglers! First, we’ve got a few announcements… Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Last Sunday we set up a reader opinion survey about how we could make The Book Smugglers even better for…
Title: The Left Hand of Darkness Author: Ursula K. LeGuin Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy Publisher: Ace (US) / Orbit (UK) Publication Date: 1969 (US) / November 2009 (UK) Hardcover: 272 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel How…
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Book Review Double Feature: Titan and Moonseed by Stephen Baxter
Today, we give you a double-shot of hard science fiction goodness! Recently, I’ve discovered the wonderful, amazing, superlative SF author that is Stephen Baxter. After reading and loving his apocalyptic duology, Flood and Ark (with the latter as my…
Howdy folks! We’ve been seeing a number of surveys and questionnaires pop up around the blogosphere – and we want to join in the self-improvement sentiment. We’ve put together a little survey about our site, and we are dying…
Happy Sunday, everyone! If you’ll kindly step away from the football… With the official end to Smugglivus, we’re back to our regular ol’ Smugglers’ Stash & News posts. But first, a few announcements. Adrian Phoenix Giveaway Winners: In all…
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Smugglivus Feats of Strength: Thea reads Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James
The Feats of Strength are an integral part of our annual Smugglivus Tradition. In the Feats of Strength, we each dare each other to read a book that we know is so far beyond the other’s comfort zone as…
2009 is over, 2010 has begun, and Smugglivus is nearly complete! Which means that we must also undergo another very important ritual… The Airing of Grievances (in which we air out any dirty laundry from 2009) In ascending order,…
Seeing as Ana and I met through LOST boards (we are ridiculous geeks), it should come as no shocker that both of us are huge couch potatoes. Television, movies, sports, you name it. So, given our advance stage of…
Format is as follows: Title, Author, Rating, Genre * Denotes JOINT REVIEW ** Denotes GUEST DARE RED denotes favorite of 2009 BLUE denotes honorable mention of 2009 JANUARY: Thea: Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James, 7, Romance (Contemporary) Titan…
Format is as follows: Title, Author, Rating, Genre * Denotes JOINT REVIEW ** Denotes GUEST DARE RED denotes favorite of 2009 BLUE denotes honorable mention of 2009 JANUARY: Thea: Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 8, Mystery Desperate Duchesses…
Welcome to Smugglivus – Day 32! Hey, it’s the New Year! Woohoo! Happy freakin’ New Year! And in light of the fact it’s 2010, we are offering, you guessed it, another Flash Giveaway*. The New Year Edition. Up for…
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Smugglivus Day 30 – A Chat With Nancy Holzner (& Giveaway)
Welcome to Smugglivus – Day 30! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010. Today’s…
Welcome to Smugglivus – Day 30! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010. Today’s…
Welcome to Smugglivus – Day 24! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010. Today’s…
Title: Deadtown Author: Nancy Holzner Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Ace Publication Date: December 2009 Paperback: 336 Pages Stand alone or series: Book 1 in a planned series How did I get this book: ARC from the publisher Why did…
Welcome to Smugglivus – Day 29! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010. Today’s…
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Smugglivus Day 29 – Guest Blogger: Harry of Temple Library Reviews
Welcome to Smugglivus – Day 29! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010. Today’s…
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Smugglivus Day 28 – Guest Blogger: Carolyn Crane of The Thrillionth Page
Welcome to Smugglivus – Day 28! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010. Today’s…
Welcome to Smugglivus – Day 28! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010. Today’s…
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Smugglivus Day 28 – Guest Bloggers: Liz & Mark of My Favorite Books
Welcome to Smugglivus – Day 28! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010. Today’s…
Welcome to Smugglivus – Day 27! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010. Today’s…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 27! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010.…