by SB Sarah · Mar 15, 2011 at 11:49 am ·
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I had a request for the runners up in the reader nominations for the DABWAHA, so here are the top ten books, with the finalist and the nine runners up as nominated by readers in each category. An asterisk denotes a tie. YA 1. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Finalist) 2. Matched by Ally Condie 3. Linger by Maggie Stiefvater 4. The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong 5. The Duff by Kody Keplinger 6. Revolution by Jennifer … Continue reading Reader Nomination Runners Up→
by SB Sarah · Feb 9, 2011 at 12:59 pm ·
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Reader Cate alerted me to the differences in Elizabeth Hoyt’s covers between the US and UK versions. Have a look. This is the UK version: And this is the US version: Cate went out of her way to order the US copy even though she’s in the UK, because she really, really dislikes the historical inaccuracy of the cover: “This is a book set in 1737 – I know that because it says so on … Continue reading Covers Across the Pond→
Day 2 of RomCon began early and somewhat stressful. Our Reader Roundtable was scheduled for 9am, but when we got there, with about 15 or so people in the room, we were told there was a small sign on the door that our panel had been moved to 10am in a totally different room. We had no idea there’d been a change, so we held the panel at 9 for the people in the room, … Continue reading RomCon Day Two→
Today I gave my panel on online marketing and as usual I learned a ton from the audience so that the next time I give this talk it will be 230% better. First, I learned last night in the librarian meet and greet how much librarians rely on author web sites and how valuable they find book lists that link series and related books together. It seems there is a romance reader type they see … Continue reading Spring Fling, Part Deux: Conference Bugaloo→
Greetings from the Spring Fling, the conference of the North Shore RWA outside Chicago. It’s about 50F outside so I don’t know that I will be flinging anything. I’m more likely to add a layer. I am speaking tomorrow about online marketing and what authors and aspiring authors need to know about online interaction and branding, but today, the conference starts with sessions on plot, character, and point of view. Plus there’s a dinner tonight with … Continue reading Chicago Spring Fling 2010→
Time again for hand selling online, when book mastermind Billie Bloebaum from Powells books (stop by and say hi when you’re next at the Portland airport!) matches enquiring minds with required reading. Raney writes: I recently finished an epic jag of reading exclusively graphic novels and trade paperbacks (basically trying to catch up on that entire, wonderful genre that I apparently missed when hitting the library growing up.) I was lucky enough to come across … Continue reading The Bookmatcher: Apocalypse and Class Lines→
Results of the Paranormal v. Historical (Round 1 of the Final Four) Combining the results of both Dear Author and Smart Bitches’ polls, here are the results: The winner is Colleen Gleason’s The Rest Falls Away which won by a total of 37 votes. Over here, Colleen’s book garnered 38 more votes than Elizabeth Hoyt’s The Serpent Prince. At DA, The Serpent Prince received one more vote than The Rest Falls Away. Don’t forget to … Continue reading The Final Four: Round One Results→
If you haven’t noticed, DA and SBTB were merged in hostile friendly takeover which took the form of a book against book tournament. We slated 64 books in 8 categories which netted 8 winners. (imagine that 8 winners in 8 categories, we are like math geniuses or geni or whatever). The current leader is Cecilia T. You can see the whole slate of brackets here. We held a second chance pool and the current leader … Continue reading On the Road to the Final Four→
The list is up, for the RITA and Golden Heart. I’ll be honest, and I’m not sure if this is a reflection of me, of something else, or just the way it played out this year but I have not been near or even in the same room as some of the books nominated for a RITA. I’ve never heard of some of them. But I am very pleased to see Elizabeth Hoyt, Anna Campbell … Continue reading RITA and GH Finalists Announced at RWA National→
Reader Joanne sent me an e-mail recently that thrilled me down to my bitchy little toes, because she hit on one of my biggest peeves in historical romance: the way many of the characters tend to sound like Americans in period drag. Americans with bad British accents in period drag. To quote from her e-mail: I have literally not read any historicals since I was a teenager (now mid-thirties so a big gap there). I … Continue reading Taking another bash at the anachronism pinata→
