I heard about Downtime from the Bitchery when its name came up as a book on sale. Obviously, I'm gonna have to read a m/m romance about a FBI agent who time travels to Victorian England and tries to solve the mystery of Jack the Ripper while falling in love with Ezra, a psychic. That's pure crack right there. The book did not live up to expectations, but I could see why it has a … Continue reading Downtime by Tamara Allen
Let's take a look at this month's most popular paranormal and urban fantasy books on sale, the ones that sold the most copies through April. Did you buy any of these? Do you recommend them? Dark and Deadly is a .99c boxed set of eight paranormal romance stories by Jennifer Ashley, Alyssa Day, Erin Quinn and Caris Roane, among others. I can't figure out if this boxed set is all novellas, or a mix. … Continue reading Books on Sale: Recapping April’s Most Popular Deals in Paranormal and Urban Fantasy
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt is $7.50 at Amazon, which is the lowest price I've seen for this book. This was The Book Everyone Was Talking About (and Still Is). It won the Pulitzer, and the hold list for it at my library is about eighteen miles long. It's part mystery, part literary fiction, and part coming-of-age novel, and many people have made Good Book Noise about this novel – including Shauna Summers in our … Continue reading Books on Sale: Goldfinches, Time Travel, Women’s Fiction, and Hard Time
What light through yonder window breaks? It’s an iFrame, and it contains survey results! Clearly, I need to get over my crush on the Wufoo surveys very very soon. But not today! I don’t need to read a pie chart or line graph for you, but I thought it was very interesting that there were nearly equal amounts of print and digital self-published books purchased by those who did purchase them, and that the top … Continue reading Self-Publishing Reader Survey Results
