It’s Adios! to week 2 of Smugglivus and Hola! to week 3. But before we tell you the line-up for another MUY LOCA week, we need to announce last week’s giveaways winners! Simon and Schuster UK giveaway (swag with…
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Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 12! 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.…
Welcome to this year’s first Smugglivus Flash giveaway! For this first offering we have two different batches, courtesy of Orbit Books and Gollancz. Batch 1 – Paranormal Romance + Fire Batch 2 – Fantasy + Fire You know the…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 11! 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.…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 10! 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.…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 9! 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.…
Smugglivus Day 8 – Guest Author (and Giveaway) : Nalini Singh
Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 8! 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.…
Smugglivus Day 7 – Guest Author (And Giveaway): Julie James
Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 7! 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.…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 6! 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.…
Hello! We leave week one of Smugglivus behind and prepare ourselves for week two with loads more of exciting posts – if we may say so ourselves. But first, last week’s giveaway winners: Joel Sutherland Giveaway This is a…
Smugglivus Day 5 – Guest Publisher (and Giveaway): Kathryn McKenna of S&S UK
Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 5! 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.…
Smugglivus Day 4 – A Chat With Alma Alexander (& Giveaway)
Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 4! 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.…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 3! 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.…
Smugglivus Day 2 – Guest Author (and Giveaway): Jackie Kessler
Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 2! 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.…
Smugglivus Day 1 – Guest Author (and Giveaway): Joel Sutherland
Welcome to Smugglivus 2009! 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, on our…
Smugglivus has arrived! As you know, Smugglivus is our end of the year celebration leading up to our blog-o-versary on January 7th. And in true celebratory spirit we have invited authors, publishers and bloggers to look back at 2009…
On December 1st, we officially kick-off Smugglivus, our month-and-a-bit-long, end of the year, event, now in its second year. Inspired by Seinfeld’s Festivus, Smugglivus starts on Dec 1st and ends on Jan 7th , the date of our second…
Hi-yo! Another weekend, another stash. First, a few announcements… Giveaway Winner: The lucky winner of a copy of M.L.N. Hanover’s Darker Angels, book 2 in The Black Sun’s Daughter series, is… LoriT! (Comment #23) Congratulations! You know the drill…
One year and 3 days ago when I (Ana) thought about starting a blog, I had no idea what was in store for me. I had just read more than 10 books over the holiday’s period and all I…
One year of Book Smuggling, one year of many happy events! It was the best of the years and the craziest of them all. We have made the move to our new casa and will have a proper celebratory…
Smugglivus Feats of Strength part 2 – Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Title: Daughter of the Forest Author: Juliet Marillier Genre: Fantasy Stand Alone/ Series: Book 1 of 4 books set in the Sevenwaters world. It can be read as a stand- alone – the next books deal with the descendents…
Smugglivus Feats of Strength: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Title: The Woman in White Author: Wilkie Collins Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Literary Fiction Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel Why did I read this book: As the first part of our feats of strength, Ana dared me to read…
Smugglivus Feats of Strength: Ana reads The Talisman by Stephen King
Title: The Talisman Author: Stephen King and Peter Straub Genre: Fantasy with a few elements of horror. Stand Alone/ Series: Stand Alone but there is a sequel of sorts with an adult Jack Sawyer titled Black House Summary: Jack…
What time is it you ask? It is time to announce the winners of the recent Smugglivus giveaways bonanza!!! OK, so here it goes: 1) Mike Stone’s giveaway. Mike picked the winner and here is a special message from…
The Majestic Festivus Pole Smugglivus wouldn’t be Smugglivus without The Smugglivus Pole. We couldn’t rightly claim a true spinoff of the Festivus celebration without posting pictures of the poles, so at long last, here they are! Of course, we…