Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
The Cusp of Something, by Jai Claire
Welcome to Day 3 of Small Press Week II! I don’t have a great deal of knowledge about British small presses, so when Elastic Press offered me a review copy of a book, I asked Andrew to provide a short bio of his press. He gave me this:
Elastic Press was founded in 2002 by Andrew [...]
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
The Duke in his Castle, by Vera Nazarian
Vera Nazarian is the head of Norilana Books, a small press born just over two years ago in California. In a strange way, reviewing a book written by Vera Nazarian when she’s the head of the publisher would also be an example of self-publishing, but considering that she’s published several other novels with various other [...]
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Small Press Week II at Someone’s Read it Already
A couple months ago, we had the first installment of Small Press Week. I’ve managed to collect another five publishers, so we’re having our second installment of Small Press Week (Small Press Week — the Sequel!) already. I’m very happy to be doing this; there is a wealth of small publishers out there, for every [...]
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen is from Miami; he’s apparently been writing about Florida and Miami for many years. At the moment he’s a columnist for the Miami Herald; I don’t actually know what his columns are about, but I’m sure I should. He’s written a good deal of strangely funny books for adults, including Sick Puppy and [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Night Watcher (Watchers, book 1), by Lilith Saintcrow
I’ve reviewed two of Lilith Saintcrow’s other novels here before. Yes, strangely enough, that appears to be her real name. She writes urban fantasy and the occasional high fantasy novels; the Dante Valentine series, of which I’ve reviewed the first novel, appears to be complete in five volumes. Her Steelflower series (review here) has just [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Alex and the Ironic Gentleman, by Adrienne Kress
Adrienne Kress is involved in the theatre, apparently. She either currently teaches or recently taught drama to 8-12-year-olds; she must be very brave. After attending the University of Toronto, she went on to study and act in London. Her parents are also theatrical sorts, and she not only dedicated the book to them, but reiterated [...]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Claimed by Shadow (Cassandra Palmer, book 2), by Karen Chance
Karen Chance’s website is entitled “Take a Chance.” I don’t know if that’s her real name or not, but if it is, she has a great name for someone writing either romance novels or urban-fantasy-paranormal-spec-fic-crossover type books. (Or perhaps gaming guides.) Her name isn’t quite as great as Lilith Saintcrow’s, but I don’t suspect anyone’s [...]
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Greywalker (Book 1), by Kat Richardson
Kat Richardson was born in California, got a degree from Cal State Long Beach, and lived and worked there for some years before moving to Seattle. She currently lives on a sailboat, with two ferrets (something that will surprise no one who has read this book) and, well, the rest of her family. She’s done [...]
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Call for Publishers and Self-Publishers
Recently, we at Someone’s Read it Already had a Small Press Week. Some of you may remember it, although it was a whole month and a half ago. In any case, we’ve got books lined up for a second Small Press Week — except we don’t actually have a week’s worth. We’ve got three, and [...]
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Firestorm (Weather Wardens, book 5), by Rachel Caine
Ah, Rachel Caine. What can I say that I hadn’t adequately covered in the intros to my eight previous reviews of her books? Well, she had a leopard tortoise named Shelley who passed away recently; apparently it was the cutest tortoise on record, who gave Ms. Caine sorrowful looks when her food dish was empty. [...]