From the monthly archives: April 2010
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a new feature for books that have caught our eye: books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. This is how the Smugglers’ Radar was born, and because there are far too many books that we want than we [...]
Well, folks, here it is – the official list of winners of Thursday’s Meg Cabot Twitter Party Giveaway!
First, we’d like to extend a huge thank you to the folks that made the party a success – Meg Cabot (@MegCabot),
Today we have another author spotlight on The Book Smugglers (two in one week! Go figure!). Today’s guest is the fantastic Urban Fantasy author Laura Bickle.
Laura is the author of the brand spankin’ new Anya Kalinczyk series, whose series title character is, of all things, an arson investigator. A psychic arson investigator, of the [...]
Author: Stephen Deas
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Gollancz
Publication date: April 2010
Paperback: 384 pages
Stand alone or series:Sequel to The Adamantine Palace, second book in a trilogy.
Prince Jehal has murdered, poisoned and betrayed his way to the [...]
Author: David Patneaude
Genre: Young Adult, Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian
Publisher: Egmont USA
Publication Date: March 2010
Hardcover: 272 pages
2097 is a transformed world. Thirty years earlier, a mysterious plague wiped out 97 percent of the male population, devastating every world system [...]
Author:Melissa Marr
Genre: YA, Fantasy, Romance
Publisher: Harper Teen
Publication Date: April 2010
Hardcover: 352 pages
Stand alone or series: Book 4 in the Wicked Lovely series
Hunger for nourishment.
Hunger for touch.
Hunger to belong.
Half-human and half-faery, Ani [...]
Hello all! Today we bring you another author spotlight on The Book Smugglers, with the debut urban fantasy novelist Sonya Bateman!
Sonya is the author of Master of None – a book about a singularly unlucky thief, a Djinn, and a mission to save the world.
Author: Sonya Bateman
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Pocket (Simon & Schuster)
Publication Date: March 2010
Paperback:
ONE UNLUCKY THIEF. ONE UNLIKELY GENIE. ONE VERY ODD COUPLE.
Gavyn Donatti is the world’s unluckiest thief. Just ask all the partners he’s lost [...]
Author: Mark Waid/ Artist: Peter Krause
Genre: Graphic Novels/ Comics
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Publishing Date: March, 2010
Paperback: 128 pages
Stand Alone or series: This volume collects issues 5-8 of the ongoing series.
What if the world’s greatest hero decided to become the world’s [...]
Good morning to all! It is time to say goodbye to our Steampunk Appreciation Weeks and resume regular schedule with a pretty cool week ahead of us, if we may say so ourselves. But first:
Giveaway winners:
The winners of the Amazon Queen giveaway are:
[...]
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