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Smuggler’s Ponderings: I, Reader

By On November 10, 2009 · 19 Comments · In Smugglers Ponderings

I am suffering from genre exhaustion.

When someone reads as much as I do (about 3-4 books per week), it is inevitable that I sometimes hit the proverbial reading slump, even amongst the genres I most love (as in Romance or most specifically Historical Romance). And part of it, I think, comes from an affliction [...]

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Smugglers Ponderings: On the FTC Guidelines & The Book Smugglers

By On October 5, 2009 · 25 Comments · In Miscellaneous, Smugglers Ponderings

Today the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its final revised guidelines governing endorsements and testimonials. While this usually would not be of interest or concern us in any way, these revised guidelines have a new stipulation covering bloggers and other word-of-mouth marketers. From the FTC Press Release:

The revised Guides specify that while [...]

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BBAW Day 5: Presto Manifesto!

By On September 18, 2009 · 21 Comments · In Smugglers Ponderings

Today we are supposed to talk about our goals for our blog, to say what we like best about it, and to explain where would we like our blog to be one year from now. Given how there seem to be a plethora of Blogging Agendas and Manifesto posts popping up across [...]

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BBAW Day 4: Blogs Discovered, Books Found

By On September 17, 2009 · 25 Comments · In Smugglers Ponderings

Today’s suggested BBAW topic is:

Today we encourage you to blog about a book you read only because you discovered it on another book blog. Preferably, this will be a book you loved! You might also write a bit about the blog you discovered it on!

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Smugglers’ Ponderings: On Book Blogger Appreciation Week (BBAW)

By On September 8, 2009 · 30 Comments · In Smugglers Ponderings

Yesterday the shortlists for the Book Blogger Appreciation Week Awards were released and we made the final ballot for three categories!! (Woohoo! Yay! Oba!) They are (if you click on each of them you will be able to see examples of posts for each category) :

Best Graphic Novel Review Blog
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Part II of our interview is up!

By On May 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Miscellaneous, Smugglers Ponderings

At Temple Library Reviews: Here

In this second part we talk about negative reviews, how does it feel to be part of a team and if we ever fight, pet peeves about the genres we read and about cliches in Fantasy and Romance.

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Smugglers’ Ponderings: On Reader’s Entitlement

By On May 13, 2009 · 31 Comments · In Smugglers Ponderings

If you are a regular reader of this blog you will probably know by now that one of my favourite series is the Tairen Soul series by C.L. Wilson. I consider this to be one of the finest examples of Fantasy Romance. The fourth and final book, Queen of Song and Souls was first set [...]

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Smugglers’ Ponderings: I, Reviewer

By On May 11, 2009 · 23 Comments · In Smuggler Specialties, Smugglers Ponderings

Last week I read an interesting article on Romancing the Blog written by Deb Werksman the romance fiction editor for Sourcebooks on the subject of credibility in fiction. She begins by listing the criteria she follows in order to recommend a book to be published and they are:

*a heroine the reader can [...]

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Extra! Extra! Infamous Smugglers Caught?

By On April 1, 2009 · 16 Comments · In Smugglers Ponderings

UK – It has been reported that a (beautiful, dashing, intelligent) woman in her 30s

has been caught by her partner trying to smuggle a bag containing 18 books recently bought at Amazon.co.uk into her library. Once confronted by said partner, the woman’s reply was simply:

“These are OLD books dear,”

which [...]

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Smugglers Ponderings: Young Adult Books From a Young Adult Perspective

By On March 26, 2009 · 14 Comments · In Smugglers Ponderings

Our regular readers may have noticed two trends over the past few weeks: firstly, that I am ridiculously, shamefully behind on responding to comments and catching up on posts around the blogosphere; and secondly, that I’ve been on something of a Young Adult kick lately (just take a look-see at all these YA reviews [...]

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