…THE BOOK SMUGGLERS! (and no, we didn’t steal any awards from sweet, defenseless teenage girls) The Book Smugglers have been bestowed with not one but TWO (!?!?!?!) awards for Book Blogger Appreciation Week: When we found out the news,…
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After two weeks of entries, our Catching Fire Giveaway bonanza has come to an official close! The lucky winners of a copy of the book, a limited edition T-Shirt, and collectible mockingjay pin are: Daisy Underhill (Comment #90) Honey…
Welcome to the second day of Book Blogger Appreciation Week! Today’s topic is Blogger Interview Swaps! We are extremely happy that were paired up with Sheri from A Novel Menagerie, which was a new-to-us blog and now is a…
Today is the official start of Book Blogger Appreciation Week… …in which over 1000 blogs get together to celebrate books and blogging (The Book Smugglers’ most favorite things in the whole wide world). As you probably know by now,…
In conjunction with Angry Robot, the new global publishing imprint from HarperCollins, we are pleased to present five daily excerpts from their upcoming Fantasy novel, Triumff by Dan Abnett (which sounds gloriously good and we will be reviewing in…
In conjunction with Angry Robot, the new global publishing imprint from HarperCollins, we are pleased to present five daily excerpts from their upcoming Fantasy novel, Triumff by Dan Abnett (which sounds gloriously good and we will be reviewing in…
In conjunction with Angry Robot, the new global publishing imprint from HarperCollins, we are pleased to present five daily excerpts from their upcoming Fantasy novel, Triumff by Dan Abnett (which sounds gloriously good and we will be reviewing in…
In conjunction with Angry Robot, the new global publishing imprint from HarperCollins, we are pleased to present five daily excerpts from their upcoming Fantasy novel, Triumff by Dan Abnett (which sounds gloriously good and we will be reviewing in…
In conjunction with Angry Robot, the new global publishing imprint from HarperCollins, we are pleased to present five daily excerpts from their upcoming Fantasy novel, Triumff by Dan Abnett (which sounds gloriously good and we will be reviewing in…
The second annual Book Blogger Appreciation Week will be taking place September 14-18. For those that don’t know: last year, Amy from the blog My Friend Amy ran a fantastic event that attracted over 400 book blogs to celebrate…
As we hit (and passed) the half year mark AND our 18 month blog-o-versary (yay us!) , we decided to take a look at what we read so far this year and list our current favourites (Note: this is…
Recently, author Diana Peterfreund had a post over at her blog, discussing books that seem to have gone for whatever reason unnoticed by blogland, or have slipped under the radar of readers. There were some fabulous reading suggestions that…
Another Sunday, another stash! And we kick this one off with a HUGE thank you to a fellow blogger. CJ, I am talking to you!!! She gave me an award!! The Little CJ Award CJ and her mini-me Little…
So, even though Terminator: Salvation was a total bust, blockbuster season is far from being over. Here are a few films Ana and I cannot wait to check out: Up Release Date: May 29, 2009 I don’t care what…
Patrick Rothfuss, writer of the glorious, amazing, BEST BOOK I READ IN YEARS, The Name of the Wind was in London last Thursday signing his books at Forbidden Planet. Unfortunately I could not attend the event (DAMN IT!) and…
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…
Harry, at Temple Library Reviews for his feature Reviewer Time! He invited us to take part in this new venture and we were more than happy to say yes. Harry is a frequent visitor to this site (and us…
This week: recap of Lost, Season 5 Episode 14 – Some Like it Hoth, a Miles episode, A.K.A. The return of the Daddy Issues. Flashback time: a woman, in a flat, looking to rent it. I recognise her from…
“Humans…the other white meat. Unless you’re black, then it’s dark meat. Or if you’re Asian, then it’s yellow meat. Or if you’re Native American, it’s red meat. (Well…you get the idea.)” ~ Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead What…
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We saw this at Kati’s place (who saw it at Nicola’s) and we thought: wow, what a cool meme, we want to play too! So here it goes: 1. What author do you own the most books by? Ana:…
Angry Robot is the new UK-based imprint of HarperCollins, devoted to SF, F, and WTF?! Publishing worldwide, as books, eBooks and downloadable audio, its mission is to bring a contemporary edge to traditional genre fiction. Angry Robot launches in…
(Well, we’re actually jumping the gun a bit) The 2009 RITA and Golden Heart Finalists have just been announced! AND, we Smugglers are very proud that two of our favorite authors have been nominated for these prestigious awards. We…
Yesterday I received a VIP for dinner. It was one of the Deadline Dames, our Good Friend, Official Honorary Book Smuggler, Pimp Extraordinnaire and as of yesterday, one of Ana’s Soul Mates, Karen Mahoney. I was super nervous, couldn’t…
…. Because we are guests at Jessica’s Racy Romance Reviews answering The Inaugural Racy Romance Questionnaire Extraordinaire: we were forced to answer to 13 dastardly questions by this person: so anything we said was under coercion and are subject…