The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson – Review

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
After the life-changing events of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, journalist Mikael Blomquist and introverted hacker Lisbeth Salander have gone their separate ways: Mikael back to his magazine, and Lisbeth (and her stolen millions) off to travel the world. Salander has cut off all communication between [...]

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Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld – Review

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
The novel is in many ways a familiar YA construction: a hidden Prince, a disguised girl, both people who need to grow up and are being forced to do so in a dangerous situation. The book delights in part because both protagonists are nicely depicted and fun to follow and root for. [...]

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Burn Me Deadly by Alex Bledsoe – Review

Burn Me Deadly: An Eddie LaCrosse Novel by Alex Bledsoe
“Burn Me Deadly” is the second book in a new series by Alex Bledsoe that features private investigator Eddie LaCrosse. Bledsoe takes my two favorite genres, fantasy and detective fiction, and mixes them up with highly entertaining results. In my review of The Sword Edged Blonde, [...]

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Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene – Review

Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene
The night before, everything was fine and just as it should be. The following morning the residents of Walden woke up to find… nothing. Beyond the town limits lies nothing but darkness. Nothing can get through and the people of Walden don’t even know if there is [...]

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Book Trailers: They Can Be So Much More Than Wannabe Movie Trailers

Book trailers are popping up all over the Internet, promoting both fiction and nonfiction books. In most cases these book trailers are similar to movie trailers – sliced together footage of pictures and film clips, often with a voiceover.
Movie trailers probably work best when they include footage of a film star that we all [...]

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Which Book of John Knowles is Your Favorite?

You don’t have to spend a lot on books to find books you will enjoy reading.  In fact, one way to save money on books is to purchase soft cover editions rather than hard cover.  This can save approximately 50 percent on your book budget while still enabling you to purchase new releases.Reading frequently is [...]

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Using Your Books as the BAsis for an Internet Business

Your books — whether fiction or nonfiction — may have a lot more value in them than you realize.
We’ll start with a nonfiction book we’ll call 15 WAYS TO START AN ONLINE BUSINESS. And we’ll agree that:
- The book has been published (whether from a traditional publisher or self-published doesn’t matter).
- Each [...]

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Best books of 2009

Literature has taken various shapes during the last few years and has morphed brilliantly. Although excellent pieces of literary art can be traced through the ages, over the last years thought-provoking and reflective works have emerged and captured the attention of readers around the globe, changing the way people think.
2009 was another year full [...]

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How Not To Get Your Book Published

You’ve got a great idea for a book and you’re raring to go. You’re sure it will become a best-seller. You start to fantasize about the great jacket blurbs you’re going to get, and whom you will thank in your Oscar acceptance speech for Best Adapted Screenplay (you resolve to remember to thank both the [...]

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Book FAQ

Fantasy Continent Name sustain!?Hi all. I am currently writing a fantasy book and i wanted to come up next to a name for the continent but i got nothing. I be considering the name Senlorum or something like that but i wanted to come up beside some that sounds more official. The book is about [...]

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