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INSPIRE! Toronto International Book Fair: A Recap

INSPIRE! Toronto International Book Fair took place last week, from November 13-16. As a consumer-oriented fair, INSPIRE is trying to set itself up as a new destination for book lovers with a mission to connect publishers, readers, bloggers and…

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The Big Book Drop – 27 September

We will be hosting alongside our good friends from Pornokitsch, ‘The Big Book Drop” – an afternoon of fun in London where folks can swing by and drop off their unwanted books. It’ll be a nice chilled out afternoon…

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Loncon 3: Where you can find us!

Ana here! We interrupt our regular programing (to be resumed shortly)1 to talk about our upcoming Loncon shenanigans! Thea arrives in England tonight (woohoo) and I am meeting her in London where we proceed to have four hardcore days…

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Today…

Thea is visiting Ana in the UK and we are having the official Big Book Smugglers Meeting of 2014. “What do you want to do tonight, pinky?” “WE ARE GOING TO TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD, BRAIN!” Muwahaha.…

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On the Smugglers’ Radar

“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…

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PSA Update: on Anna Marie Moore Designs

Last Sunday we went public and wrote up our terrible experience with Anna Marie Moore Designs. A brief recap: back in June of this year, we contacted web designer Anna Marie Moore about working on an updated design for…

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A Non-Book Smuggler Survey: The Results

Hello, everyone! Book Smuggler Thea, here. A few months ago, I posted a survey and asked for your help in completing the market research portion of my graduate thesis. Thanks to you – 919 of you, to be precise…

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A Non-Book Smuggler Survey

Hello, everyone! Book Smuggler Thea, here. As you may know in addition to being a Smuggler, I’m also an NYU grad student, working on my degree in digital publishing. Today I write to you in my capacity as a…

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Celebrating 50 Years of A Wrinkle In Time

Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time – rejected by countless publishers before finally finding a home with FSG in 1962 – was a formative novel for me as a young girl. With its sympathetic heroine, the socially awkward (but…

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World Book Night 2012

Hello fellow Smugglers! I’m here today to talk to you about an exciting new opportunity — Nope, that sounds like an infomercial. Thea and Ana are kind enough to let me guest post about World Book Night America, so…

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