My participation in Creative Alliance ’12 prompted much consideration of my approach to my online life. As a book blogger, that life clearly includes books and authors…but it hasn’t included many from the swelling ranks of the “non-traditionally published.” Today it does, in the first of several posts on the topic of “indie authors” I have planned for this month (somehow, NaNoWriMo seems like good timing for it). Loretta Squirrels. The Tarnations. Morty Portnoy. Scarlett […]
As you probably inferred from the title, I’m on the threshold of another posting milestone–one that probably doesn’t mean much except that it’s another number ending in zero. However, it did prompt me to calculate whether I’d reach 2000 posts here by my 6th blogiversary on March 16, 2013. That would require daily posting for the next 134 days, with two new posts on 66 of those days…which is seriously unlikely to happen, so those […]
Block 11 Piero degli Antoni (translated by Erin Waggener) St. Martin’s Press (October 2012), hardcover (ISBN 1250001021 / 9781250001023) Fiction, 240 pages A version of the following was previously published in Shelf Awareness for Readers (October 30, 2012) as a compensated review assignment. An advance reader’s copy of the book was provided to facilitate the assignment. Opening lines: “’Wake up. Wake up, my darling.’ “The old man sleeping next to her opened his eyes with great […]
