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This is one of those instances where I’ve been busier behind-the-scenes than up front and center on the blog. As you can see, the logos are done, are in place, and the rest of the site changed to match. Anne had a great idea of having a lighter color on one of the sidebars. I’m [...]

Finished Tinkering

I finally finished tinkering with my layout. As I mentioned in the comments of the post below, I had to turn the header image-handling off in this theme and use a plug-in called Dynamic Headers in order to make it look close to the way I envisioned. I also incorporated my color scheme throughout, but [...]

Experimenting with my Headers

Things might look wonky for a while.

Review: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
by Ben H. Winters
Quirk Books
Trade Paperback – $12.95
Author Article – “How I Wrote Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters”

Reviewed by Superwench83

“The family of Dashwood had been settled in Sussex since before the Alteration, when the waters of the world grew cold and hateful to the sons of man, and darkness [...]

Debut Review – The Manual of Detection

The Manual of Detection
by Jedediah Berry (blog)
Penguin
Hardcover and Trade Paperback

The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berrywill probably end up in my year end “Best Of” list. It was just about perfectly conceived, perfectly executed, perfectly written, and perfectly charming. I’m hard pressed to think of any critiques. It’s that good.

With that said, it’s not for [...]

Debuts & Reviews Logos

I designed some logos and I wondered what you guys thought. I wanted two logos — one with just initials, and a logo with the site name spelled out. So I came up with this design set:

This would be in the header, probably shrunk up so it isn’t so tall.

This goes in the sidebar.

Please note: [...]

Now Guest Posting at Guide to Literary Agents

My article in Guide to Literary Agents “7 Things I’ve Learned So Far” recurring feature is now live. Go forth, read, and comment! I’ll answer comments both here and there, but it would be really great if you would leave them over there. Thanks!

7 Things I’ve Learned So Far, by me

Review: The Swordbearer by Glen Cook

The Swordbearer
by Glen Cook (Wiki)
Night Shade Books
Trade Paperback – $14.95

Genre: High Fantasy

Publisher’s Blurb:
A young man’s dreams of warfare and glory turn into a bitter nightmare when an invading army, led by the Dark Champion Nevenka Nieroda and his twelve Dead Captains, the Toal, besieges his father’s feudal fortress. Nieroda and the Toal demand the surrender [...]

Debut Showcase – Feburary 16, 1020

I did a little experiment on you guys. I posted the last Showcase without any of my usual impressions after each book. Superwench was the only one who commented. Therefore, this time, I added my comments and left off the images. Something has to go; these posts take hours to assemble as it is. And [...]

What I’m Reading

Since nothing’s ready for review, I thought I’d put up a post about what I’m reading now, and have read recently, and what I have going on behind the scenes. I find it helpful to do these kinds of posts every once in a while — it helps keep me organized.

I finished Sonya Bateman’s Master [...]

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