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Congrats to fellow LLBR reviewers, LK Gardner-Griffie and Dan Marvin! Both of their books made the Top BookBuzzr Books list for August 2009 according to the BookBuzzr newsletter today.
Have you ever been in a situation in which you have been uncomfortable? Where you don’t know what to say? Or, when faced with a new task tend to panic? If you understand any of those feelings, think how Leah Nells feels, because every minute of every day is a struggle for her to get through.
Sony has finally made a bid to take back the e-book market which Amazon’s Kindle has been dominating since it was released. Sony has released the Reader Touch Edition.
It’s been a busy summer for me! Working in the textbook industry for me is like the month of December for retailers, except our rush season starts July 5th and lasts for almost three months as college bookstores prepare for students to return to campus. After coming home from a grueling day, the last thing I wanted to do was to look at a book, much less anything related to books. But Facebook and its many “Oregon Trail” like games helped to distress my busy mind supplying a numbing sensation and much time wasted watching virtual crops grow.
Friday, Smashwords authors received a lengthy email from Smashwords CEO Mark Coker announcing that distribution through major retailers is in the works, “the first of which is Barnes & Noble and their various properties including Barnesandnoble.com, Fictionwise and their eReader app.”
See who our roving reviewer, Julie Elizabeth Powell, selected to review this month.
When I looked at the first chapter, before I got into the story, I was immediately impressed by a writing style which is highly descriptive and manages to express such atmosphere. This is what draws me into a story more than anything else. Deana, the protagonist and narrator, talks in a casual, natural manner, and (I feel) projects a somber sense of foreboding appropriate to her tale.
We first met Tiff Banks in review 70 of Along Came a Demon. During the course of the first book, Tiff Banks is established as a person with the ability to talk with ghosts, who are referred to as shades. Tiff used her gift to assist the Clarion Police Department with murder investigations.
I was excited to get an email from Amazon.com’s Author Central Team yesterday announcing they had finally given a bit more spotlight to the Author Central program. As you may recall, in the past if you had an Amazon Connect blog it could be found right at the bottom of your product page. Amazon decided that blogs probably ate up too much selling space, so they launched a new program called Author Central.
Today, Nick Popio of Lulu.com announced on the Lulu Blog that they are discontinuing the Published By You (PBY) option. Authors now have to use either the Published by Lulu option and list Lulu as the publisher and use a Lulu owned ISBN, or they have to purchase their own ISBN outside of Lulu to assign toward their book.
C.V. reviews Chuggie and the Desecration of Stagwater by Brent Michael Kelley
Shannon reviews The Boston 395 by Jason Derr
Susan reviews Appraisal for Murder by Elaine Orr
C.V. reviews Hellwatch by Larime Taylor (February's 1st review)
Jaime reviews The Parrot's Perch by Karen Keilt
Susan reviews Dark Mind by Jennifer Chase
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