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To prove there still is a home for vampires out there - other than Broadway - I give you this book sale announcement:
FICTION: WOMEN’S/ROMANCE
Erica Orloff’s THE HALF-BLOOD COUNT, about a dhampir — half vampire, half human — and a comparative religion professor searching for her lost brother in Prague, who must help each other [...]

Vampires may be all the rage in romance novels but not so much on Broadway.
Here was the theory:- Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles + Elton John’s music + an undead guy named Lestat + a bunch of people singing in vampire costumes = Broadway hit.
Here’s the reality (or, maybe I should say, here’s what [...]

Since no one has accused Meg Cabot of plagiarism, let’s talk about her for a second. The same author who gave us Princess Diaries provided the best quote I read yesterday here . And, again, no one has accused her of stealing it from someone else, which made the quote even more special.
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The plan for today was to do a new Author Spotlight. But, since in the last 24 hours my last Author Spotlight managed to get accused of plagarism and then admit to it…well, I just feel like sighing.
If you somehow missed this - and, if so, I can only assume you don’t own a [...]

First, an unrelated item: Forget to announce a contest winner on Saturday? Who me? Yeah, I forgot. So, here’s the newest winner: Robin Flaig. Robin, email me with your contact info, and I’ll get the book out to you.
Now, the warning part. I walked [...]

Authors debate the effectiveness of certain promo items like bookmarks, postcards and other handy little gadgets given out to booksellers and readers. The New York Times Sunday Book Review ran an article on a different promo item - book parties. The title was: The Party’s Over. Does that give you an idea [...]

I stumbled across Lara Rose’s blog entry about a Blaze she recently read. First, I have no idea what book this is or who the author is. Her comments on the idea of “chick lit, Blaze style!” as to this book were pretty interesting.
On the women-become strong-when-they-wear-sexy-clothes idea she says:
Main heroine wrote a [...]

Look at all the sales!
1. In the “wow” category - notice the word “debut” in this announcement:
FICTION: DEBUT
Tana French’s INTO THE WOODS, a psychological crime thriller, to Kendra Harpster at Viking, for six figures, in a two-book deal, by Emma White at the Darley Anderson.
2. For those who think the vampire romance craze [...]

Every now and then I see a book and think - damn, I have to put that on a list and remember to scoop it up. I had one of those moments while looking through the New Releases section on the Kensington website (and, yes, I was checking to see if my August [...]