It’s that time of year again – it is award eligibility time! Today, we’re talking about the Hugo Awards and putting together our obligatory award eligibility post. The Hugo Awards are a fan award and one of longest-running and…
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Awards Book Reviews Decoding the Newbery
Decoding the Newbery: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz
In this episode of Decoding the Newberry, Catherine Faris King reads Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz Decoding the Newbery is a monthly column in which Newbery Medal winners are examined and deconstructed by regular contributor and…
Book Reviews Decoding the Newbery
Decoding the Newbery: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Decoding the Newbery is a monthly column in which Newbery Medal winners are examined and deconstructed by regular contributor and author Catherine Faris King. This month, Catherine examines the 1959 medalist The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George…
Book Reviews Decoding the Newbery
Decoding the Newbery: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
Decoding the Newbery is a monthly column in which Newbery Medal winners are examined and deconstructed by regular contributor and author Catherine Faris King. This month, Catherine examines 1948 Newbery Medalist The Twenty-One Balloons By William Pene du Bois.…
Decoding the Newbery
Decoding the Newbery: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, and his fellow apprentices
Decoding the Newbery is a monthly column in which Newbery Medal winners are examined and deconstructed by regular contributor and author Catherine Faris King. This month, Catherine examines three books with a similar theme… It’s a simple story, seen…
Decoding the Newbery is a monthly column in which Newbery Medal winners are examined and deconstructed by regular contributor and author Catherine Faris King. This month, Catherine examines the first ever book to be awarded the Newbery Medal: The…
Decoding the Newbery is a monthly column in which Newbery Medal winners are examined and deconstructed by regular contributor and author Catherine Faris King. This month, we examine 2015 Newbery Medal winner, The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. Basketball Rule…
In which we have many words about the 2015 Hugo Nominations. Hello everyone and Happy Sunday – for those who celebrate Easter, Happy Easter! For those who observe Passover, Happy Passover! And for those of us who are speculative…
Decoding the Newbery
Introducing a new column and new contributor: Decoding the Newbery with Catherine Faris King
Today we are delighted to launch a new column here on The Book Smugglers! Starting in April, “Decoding the Newbery” will be a monthly column taking a look at Newbery Medal winners and will be hosted by our new…
March 10th is nigh – which means it’s time to submit your nominations for the 2015 Hugo Awards! The Hugo Awards are among the most prestigious speculative fiction accolades, and its winners are announced each year at the World…
Awards SFF in Conversation
SFF in Conversation: Jared Shurin – Poking at Awards: Stop trying to make ‘prestigious’ happen
SFF in Conversation is a monthly feature on The Book Smugglers in which we invite guests to talk about a variety of topics important to speculative fiction fans, authors, and readers. Our vision is to create a safe (moderated)…
It’s that time of year again – awards season is here! Today we will be talking about the Hugo Awards! The Hugo Awards are among the most prestigious under the SFF umbrella, and each year the winners are announced…
It’s that time of year again – awards season! While the Hugo Awards aren’t without their (significant) issues, we’re still happy and proud to be able to nominate and vote for the biggest SFF annual fan awards. The Hugo…
Hello everyone! As you may know, it is awards season – speculative fiction awards, that is. The Nebula nominees have been officially announced (and we couldn’t be more thrilled with the selection of titles), but it is also that…
Welcome to another Sunday edition of our Smugglers’ Stash & News. We shall start with some excellent news: The Mysterious Benedict Society covers to be “Adjusted”: The School Library Journal reported on the 26th that Little, Brown Books for…
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…
Happy Sunday, all! Hope you’ve had a great weekend, etc, etc, etc. Now, down to business… Giveaway Winners: First up, is our giveaway of Meljean Brook’s latest Guardians novel, Demon Forged. The lucky winner is: BREE! Also, the winner…
…THE BOOK SMUGGLERS! (and no, we didn’t steal any awards from sweet, defenseless teenage girls) The Book Smugglers have been bestowed with not one but TWO (!?!?!?!) awards for Book Blogger Appreciation Week: When we found out the news,…
Yesterday the shortlists for the Book Blogger Appreciation Week Awards were released and we made the final ballot for three categories!! (Woohoo! Yay! Oba!) They are (if you click on each of them you will be able to see…
Hello, good morning and welcome! Another week ahead of us and plenty of cool things to come but first…. A Couple of HUGE Announcements: We have just received some AMAZING news! Joel Sutherland, speculative fiction author extraordinaire, has made…
“Humans…the other white meat. Unless you’re black, then it’s dark meat. Or if you’re Asian, then it’s yellow meat. Or if you’re Native American, it’s red meat. (Well…you get the idea.)” ~ Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead What…
(Well, we’re actually jumping the gun a bit) The 2009 RITA and Golden Heart Finalists have just been announced! AND, we Smugglers are very proud that two of our favorite authors have been nominated for these prestigious awards. We…
Mamma Mia! We got a Your Blog is Fabulous award from 4 awesome blogs: Books Lists Life, Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review, Dark Wolf and Grasping from the Wind! Thea and Ana – 20 years from now. The new Edina…