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It’s been a while since we’ve had anyone review their own book, so thanks to our own reviewer Julie Elizabeth Powell for giving it a go! If you’d like to participate, email us direct with a brief 10 sentence review of your own book. It should not be a pitch, but an honest “outside yourself” review of the book. Include a book cover pic and author photo. More details can be found here.
This is a somewhat predictable but enjoyable story about a childhood romance that never really died away. Nick and Katherine met one summer as teenagers while vacationing at the lake. Nick’s mother let Katherine know she was beneath her son when she was invited to their big estate for tea. They had servants for everything and it was all so formal that Katherine felt very out of place.
After yesterday’s post and critique of Web Design Schools Guide 10 Things You Should Know About Self-Publishing, I decided to come up with my own list of ten things that I feel you should know. Mostly based on my own personal self-publishing experience spanning 4 books, this isn’t necessarily a TOP 10 list.
Web Design Schools Guide, a site devoted to helping students nurture a creative career, just published an article called 10 Things You Should Know About Self-Publishing.
Several weeks ago, a post on Henry Baum’s Self Publishing Review blog offered a succinct perspective on quality in self-publishing, questioning whether readers would care or even notice so-called gatekeeper issues when they’re paying less than a buck for an E-Book. False Refuge by Steven Anderson is an under-a-buck book and the post made me pause to consider whether, as a reviewer, I ought to consider the price in reviewing this novel and be more forgiving about any copyediting issues I might come across.
I won a copy of Emily Veinglory’s book in a give away through her well-known review site, POD People, last year and just got around to reading it. I’m not much for M/M fantasy but since several of my recent reads fell into the supernatural/fantasy genre, I came across Father of Dragons on the book shelf and decided to keep going and read it as well.
For the last decade, if you’ve worked in a bookstore then you probably have a Harry Potter story. You probably worked a late night HP Party when a new book came out, or you probably had interesting discussions with customers who berated Potter for teaching kids about wizardry. My own story begins in the year 2000 when I first started working in a bookstore.
What a fantastically funny piece of writing, I absolutely loved it.
Great style which lets us into the mind of the character at once.
All I can say is brilliant, excellent and highly recommended.
C.V. Hunt should be proud. I actually stopped reading Amanda Hocking’s Switched to read Hunt’s Endlessly, and in the end, Hunt’s book won me over. When Hunt first queried us with her book, I admit I rolled my eyes and thought to myself Oh yay! Another vampire book! But after reading the preview, my hesitation went away and I decided to take a chance since the book was under 200 pages. I was hooked after the first chapter. I continued reading Hocking because it’s what everyone else is reading, and as I’ve stated before, that’s exactly why I shouldn’t read something. (It’s why I still haven’t read Harry Potter to date!) I much prefer the books no one has ever heard of, and I hope that after my review many more will be reading C.V. Hunt.
Switched is the story of Wendy Everly. She’s different. She’s doesn’t fit it. She lives with her overly protective brother Matt and her Aunt Maggie. Wendy’s Mom tried to kill her when she was a child because she claimed Wendy wasn’t her daughter and that she’d been switched at birth. Wendy’s Mom is still locked up because of it, and maybe she was right.
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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