I got an email last week letting me know about a fantastic contest for CANADIAN bloggers from Simon & Schuster! It is a giveaway for bloggers to win one of twenty copies of the next book in Becca Fitzpatrick’s Hush, Hush series *happy dance* Continue reading “Waiting On Wednesday (sept-3)”
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Should Be Reading. Share the title & author, so that others can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences.
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!!!
The Irish Upstart by Shirley Kennedy
“It’s an old Irish saying. I said, may the cat eat him and may the devil eat the cat.”
“How did I happen to say, ‘Take me to the garden and give me a big, sloppy, slimy kiss’ with my fan?”
When someone asks you to edit something for them they are usually asking you to check for spelling and grammatical errors, but that is just one small part of what editing really is. There are actually four steps to the editing process and each step may require numerous revisions.
It is necessary for every document to go through each of these steps to ensure that your manuscript is the best it possibly can be. It is in the author’s best interest to do so because it will make them appealing to the reader and thus creating a fan base. It is in the publishing company’s best interest because the better the book, the more they sell, and the more profit to be made.
So here are the four steps of editing you must go through before putting your book in print. Continue reading “What does an editor really do?”
Synopsis: Demon Rumm was everybody’s hero, and the role of the lifetime for Rylan North. Wanting to understand the man’s personal persona as well as the professional, Rylan decided he needed to temporarily move in with the man’s widow in order to fully encapsulate the stunt pilot on film. Upon meeting, Rylan is immediately fascinated by the woman, the only female who wants nothing from him… even as he discovers that he wants forever. Continue reading “Book Review: Demon Rumm by Sandra Brown”
Sorry you had to wait a bit longer today for Wednesday’s WoW meme! I am waiting for a book, quite literally, as it is something I asked for from the library. It is the first book in a series, and I am also on the reserved list for the second book. Continue reading “Waiting On Wednesday (sept-2)”
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Should Be Reading. Share the title & author, so that others can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences.
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!!!
The Princess by Lori Wick
I’m just the man who tried to introduce himself to the redheaded woman sitting in the kitchen, only to learn she was my wife.
Love is a choice.
Thanks to Jen Armentrout and hannahelt who inspired this meme. They claimed I get excited over the simplest things, so I decided to post something “simple” that I get excited over just to prove that the smallest things really do make you smile :0)
Today’s smile is… Continue reading “Simple Smile Saturday: Clash of the Tartans”
Synopsis: Various animals find themselves in danger, only to be rescued by the most unlikely source –the very thing that could harm them.
Product: This storybook, while not a hardcover, is made with rather stiff board paper that allows the book to easily be held without bending. This makes it perfect for story time or a bedtime story. Continue reading “Book Review: Help Me! by Paul Geraghty”
For anyone in the Toronto area you’ll know about the Word On The Street festival that takes place every September. My publishing program was asked to volunteer for the event last year, and I’m volunteering again this year.
It was actually at this festival that I heard Kelley Armstrong read from her book The Gathering, which has since become available. It was there that she told us it was the beginning of a new trilogy called Darkness Rising and would be based on another genetic-altering experiment. Continue reading “Waiting on Wednesday (sept-1)”
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Should Be Reading. Share the title & author, so that others can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences.
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!!!
Someone Like Her by Janice Kay Johnson
No day is the same as the one that came before…
“But you know, whether you see a glass as half-full or half-empty, the exact same amount of water is in it.”
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