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January 10, 2011 | Monday | 34 Comments
In the inbox this morning: NYT bestselling author Mary Jane Clark is going to be signing books at a Manhattan outpost of Coldwater Creek, a women’s clothing store that caters to a rather upscale audience above the age of 35-40. Have a look at the email graphic: For a $50 purchase, shoppers get a copy of the book, and the author is there to sign it. This lights a fire under my synapses for a host of reasons, because it is a strange extension of author branding: matching a clothing store to an author, and potentially her readership, and then…
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October 29, 2010 | Friday | 10 Comments
This comes from Ana. Calzedonia is a socks and hosiery store in Spain and parts of Italy, and their ad totally made me smile:
The last line reads, “We hope it’s a girl.”
Have a fabulous weekend of dancing in your socks!
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October 28, 2010 | Thursday | 20 Comments
It’s time for more Holiday Gift Ideas for all that shopping that, judging from the mall decorations, needs to be done right hopping now! First: a note. Somehow, I must have given the impression that I dislike Christmas in my last Gift Guide entry - which, OOPS. So not the case! To all those who emailed me about Christmas gifts, let me restate: I don’t actually dislike Christmas at all. I don’t celebrate it but I do like much of it, particularly the SMELL. If I walk by a Christmas tree display I will stick my nose in the branches…
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October 04, 2010 | Monday | 81 Comments
Yesterday, Hubby and I went shopping for warmer clothes for all of us, and there, on the northernmost wall of the store it was… Christmas. Trees and garlands and sparkly stuff and holiday frames and all kinds of stuff, all on sale. YOU GUYS. IT IS NOT EVEN HALLOWEEN. (Also: we are not Christian and therefore do not celebrate Christmas but that’s beside the point). Did that stop me from looking at the items on sale and finding some very excellent gifts for people for the holidays? Of course not. (We celebrate Hanukkah - the most excellent holiday ever because…
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June 24, 2010 | Thursday | 29 Comments
Longtime commenter AnimeJune is looking for a book for her mother: My mum read this book a couple of times as a child and remembers really loving it - she describes it as “the book she wants to read again before she dies.” Unfortunately, she can’t remember the title, author, or a vast majority of the plot and what she does remember (other than that it was awesome) is a bit hazy. What she remembers is that it was published in the fifties or possibly early sixties (she remembers the book was pretty beat up by the time she read…
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December 16, 2009 | Wednesday | 5 Comments
A few folks have written in to tell me that if you subscribe to the All Romance ebooks newsletter, each day this week until Christmas, there’s a link to a romance novel that’s free for the downloading and the buying. You do have to create an account, but I’ve done many a transaction with them and never had a problem. Plus, as Midknyt tells me, at the footer of the weekly newsletter is a random drawing for a shopping spree in their store. Keeps her subscribed, she says.
Thanks to all those who gave me the heads up.
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October 19, 2009 | Monday | 22 Comments
If you’re just joining us (hi there!), one project I work on from time to time - and collaborators are welcome to add to it - is the Romance Bookstore map on Google maps. I’ve added many used bookstores that Bitchery readers have told me are romance friendly - both new and used. View Romance Bookstores: New and Used in a larger map There are locations all over the US and a few in Canada, with stores marked in Australia, as well. Please, feel free to add your own favorite romance-friendly bookstore. Why am I doing this? Sometimes you go…
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September 21, 2009 | Monday | 17 Comments
So I’ve been looking at ebook readers for a while, as I’m a voracious reader and I am rapidly running out of space for all my books. Like with my iPod I wanted the freedom to have options with my reading on the go, not to mention not having to lug heavy hardcovers. The main thing keeping me back at the time? The variety of formats and the price. There was no way I was going shelling out $350 Canadian for something when I couldn’t be sure I was going to be able to buy books wherever I want and…
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September 18, 2009 | Friday | 10 Comments
There are few things I like doing better than reading. Which means it’s surprising I haven’t picked up an e-reader of any kind until the SBTB Sony e-reader test drive challenge. Up until now paper books and I have had a die-hard lovefest. In fact there are times when my husband is jealous of my books taking up so much of my time and having to share space in the house with them. Enter the e-reader. When I first opened the e-reader I didn’t bother reading the directions. I wanted to see how organically I responded to the device. I’m…
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September 05, 2009 | Saturday | 11 Comments
In retrospect, I think I expected a wondrous magical device. When I was picked to test drive the Sony eReader, I was more than thrilled. I could buy books, load up my reader with as many as I wanted, and never run out of something to read. My kids were happy, too, because they could get a book FAST without waiting for it to show up in the mail or running to the bookstore. (Kids. Instant gratification is all they want. J I thought that my whole reading life was about to change. Not so much. The stuff I believed…
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September 03, 2009 | Thursday | 4 Comments
It is two pieces of awesome, and verily I am rocking out with the glee. First: Billie Bloebaum, romance buyer for Powell’s airport store in Portland, is now the romance blogger for PowellsBooks.blog. WORD. She’s had a few blog entries in the past, but now she’s going to be talking about romance, ebooks, and all things romance genre. Her first entry about romance? All about a pair of book I really, really really enjoyed: Jill Shalvis’ Double Play and Instant Attraction. Yay! In other news, did you know that you can buy ebooks from Powell’s? It’s true! Thanks to Darin,…
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August 31, 2009 | Monday | 4 Comments
Pt. I: Meet Cute So Sony 700 showed up on my front porch in a plain brown box, with none of the exotic fairy-tale wrapping of his distant cousin Kindle. That didn’t stop my teenage daughter from squealing “SOOOOO CYUUUUTTTE!!!” at the sight of him, and despite my embarrassment, I privately agreed. Short, sleek, and slim, he was almost everything I love in a hero; I only hoped he didn’t exhibit the psychotic tendencies I also had a fondness for – in fiction. I’m not much of a one for small talk, so after a cursory tussle with the unwieldy…
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August 29, 2009 | Saturday | 23 Comments
PERMISSION GRANTED Now that I’ve poked, prodded, played with, dropped, and otherwise abused my Sony PRS-700 eReader (thanks again to the generous folks at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books for giving me the opportunity to test drive one of these babies!) it’s time for The Review. In order to fit my review in the wordcount requested by the Smart Bitches, I basically had to resort to bulleted lists and incomplete sentences. It was horrifying. Worse than that, it was boring. Drier than the thanksgiving turkey at Aunt Edith’s. Taking pity on me, the Smart Bitches graciously permitted me to ramble. *cracks…
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August 14, 2009 | Friday | 10 Comments
I was picked for this test drive because I said, “I don’t think so. Convince me.” And then I was picked. And then I got excited. First reaction: my Sony 505 eReader has a brown cover. I’m so not into brown. It has a gray screen. I’m much more into gray. It’s a bit heavy. More heavy and solid than a paperback. Lighter and more streamlined than a hardback, though. It’s a tad awkward too, because the cover is pretty lightweight compared to the actual reader, so it’s always off-balance. I also have this nightmare vision of my toddler-who-throws-things getting…
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August 07, 2009 | Friday | 11 Comments
First, this made me sad: due to a loss of funding and broadcast rights, Reading Rainbow will leave broadcast schedules on 28 August 2009. The Reading Rainbow series has not been in production for several years and PBS had taken it out of the weekday feed schedule last fall to make room for the new literacy-based shows. WTVP continued to air the series at that time. Neither PBS nor producing station WNED, Buffalo were able to fund another cycle of renewals, nor were they able to identify a new corporate funder. The series will continue to be available to educators…
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