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Here are three that I read, which are the all the first book in series or trilogies. Each was a fabulous read and each had me aching for the next in the series. Each had me thinking about it afterwards … Continue reading
Tag Archives: reading and readers
You are buying books for Christmas, right?For the kids, the aunts, the partner, the friends, the cat? So now I am going to talk about one of my favourite book-writing people. K.E. Mills, aka Karen Miller. She’s a Sydneysider, but … Continue reading
Tis the season to be jolly, right? Books make great presents, they aren’t too expensive, they smell good when new, they are easily transportable, they can be thrown at the cat without doing too much damage to either cat or … Continue reading
I could tell you about the latest idiocy re Malaysia and censorship. Or I could tell you what I think of a certain President who ignored and sidelined the very people paid by his government to investigate the truth about … Continue reading
Harping back to the Bujold GoH speech at Denvention , she made some really interesting comments about romance readers versus fantasy readers, and how she could tell from their remarks re stories they had read (the same stories), which side … Continue reading
The comments on the post below for Wednesday about men readers and cats continues apace. What I want to know is this: do the majority of women have things that they don’t read because the subject matter is perceived as … Continue reading
I often delve into a blog site called Writer Unboxed. Great place for writers and people who want to be writers and for readers who want to know a bit about the process. The brain child of Therese Walsh and … Continue reading
I have a flight to Amsterdam and then on to Milan coming up, most of which will be spent chasing night around the world – which means no glorious vistas out of the plane window at 30,000′. So I will … Continue reading
Cheryl Morgan over here has something interesting to say about what science fiction readers want when they read fantasy (basically lots of sensawunda ideas). She is commenting on how some series/trilogies (with reference to The Shadow of Tyr, book 2 … Continue reading
Author Juliet Marillier (who lives in my home state of Western Australia) writes here about her time at the Children’s Book Council of Australia conference. She makes mention of a professor from USA who, in Juliet’s words: “used his keynote … Continue reading