Welcome to Smugglivus 2011! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2011, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2012. Who: Heather Tomlinson, author of wonderful YA fantasy! Thea discovered Heather Tomlinson this year after stumbling across a copy of The Swan Maiden in her local independent bookstore. And she loved it, internets. She LOVED it. Recent Work: The truly awesome Toads and Diamonds, a retelling of Charles Perrault’s fairy tale “Les Fées” set in an alternate fantasy world similar to pre-colonial India. Please give a warm welcome to Heather! Thanks ever so much for inviting me to join the Smugglivus festivities. You people are evil. I’m torn between delight and despair about exactly how many Delicious-Sounding Books I Have Yet To Read And Many Of Which I Never Heard Of Before have jumped out at me from the posts contributed so far. Onward! For 2011: Alas, I mostly read nonfiction this year, researching the Spanish-American War and the California Gold Rush for works-in-progress. Unless you’re enthusiastic to discover, say, how advances in military hygiene saved lives in Cuba (and for that, I’d highly […]