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: Susan Jane Bigelow, author of SCIFI and UF novels (Superheroes!). Recent Work: Broken, the first in the Extrahuman Union series and one of Ana’s Notable Reads of 2011 Please give it up for Susan Jane, everybody! Thanks so much to the Book Smugglers for letting me take part in Smugglivus this year! 2011 has been my year of not reading nearly enough. I’m married to a person who usually devours 400+ books per year, so I’m used to feeling like a slacker in the reading department, but this year I’ve been so busy with writing fiction and politics that I haven’t had as much time as I’d have liked. I feel like I’ve fallen hopelessly behind, and new amazing stuff just keeps coming out! However, I did get some satisfying reading done despite everything else I’ve been busy with. Whenever I get stuck on my writing, I find there’s nothing better than diving into a good book to jumpstart my own creativity. I’ll […]