Do you like military science fiction? I like military science fiction. I grew up reading a lot of historical fiction about wars and soldiers, and in time it melded with my other favorite genre, and so my lifelong fondness…
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In which we host Karen Healey in support of The Empress of Timbra Kickstarter – a high fantasy novel co-written with Robyn Fleming. The Kickstarter is doing super well and with six more days to go, there are some…
Guest Blogger Inspirations and Influences
The Permission You Need Is Right Here: Nova Ren Suma on The Walls Around Us
In which we welcome Nova Ren Suma to the blog for a guest essay on writing, self-permission, and her New York Times bestselling novel The Walls Around Us. “Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we…
Welcome to Halloween Week 2015! Over the course of the week, you will hear from guest authors, bloggers, and your very own Book Smugglers about all things Halloween–including reviews of horror novels and films, essays on the genre, and…
Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped)…
Today, we give the floor to our friend Kenda, from the awesome blog Lurv a La Mode. Kenda is not only a kick-ass reviewer of all things romance and SF but also an amazingly talented Graphic Designer (*points to…
Cover Matters is a new monthly feature in which we examine the medium that is first contact between a reader and a book: the cover. This feature will dedicate more separate space to a topic that has always intrigued,…
Today, for our last guest of the season, we have the incomparable Katie(babs) of Babbling About Books, And More!. Katie has decided to write a little bit about some of the scariest places to visit, in Travel Channel fashion!…
Guest Blogger Halloween Week
Halloween Week Guest Post: Diana Peterfreund & Carrie Ryan talk Christopher Pike
For today’s guest, we are very lucky to have young adult authors Diana Peterfreund (of Rampant fame) and Carrie Ryan (genius behind YA zombie novel, The Forest of Hands and Teeth) over to guest blog. For their topic, they’ve…
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Halloween Week Guest Post: Kristen Reviews Whisper of Death
Greetings, friends! Our next guest for Halloween Week is the lovely Kristen of Fantasy Cafe. Kristen isn’t much of a horror reader, but when we invited her over for the week, she was eager to give one of Thea’s…
For our next stop on Halloween Week, we have the fabulous paranormal romance/urban fantasy author Meljean Brook over for a guest post! We are unabashed Meljean fangirls – so when we were inviting folks over for Halloween, she was…
Yesterday, the wonderful Harry Markov of Temple Library Reviews – or Harrymonster, as we like to call him – had us Book Smugglers over at his blog for a Halloween interview. Today, we return the favor! See, Harry, Ana…
For Halloween Week 2009, we will be bringing you a different guest blogger each day, sharing their own Halloween Words of Wisdom and Ponderings. Today, we give you the uber-talented and supercool Graeme, of Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review. A…
A couple of months ago read, or at least, try to read, Night’s Rose by Annaliese Evans and it ended up being the first ever book that neither of us were able to finish. The result was a conversational…
Since July 19th, we have been celebrating all things Young Adult with guest posts, authors interviews, reviews and giveaways. Now it is time to open the floor to you, dear reader so that you can be part of the…
Guest Blogger YA Appreciation Month
Young Adult Appreciation Month – Guest post: a Chat with The Story Siren
For our Young Adult Appreciation Month, we invited a few bloggers to guest post about Young Adult books. This week’s guest is Kristi, from The Story Siren blog, whom we chatted with about her YA reading. The Story Siren…
Guest Blogger YA Appreciation Month
Young Adult Appreciation Month: A Day In The Life of a Teen Librarian
Since July 19, we have been running our Month-long (+One Extra Week) Young Adult Appreciation event in which we exclusively review YA novels and talk about the genre. We are lucky enough to have been able to invite some…
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Guest Dare: Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair
Every month we dare another book blogger to read a book that is outside their comfort zone and invite them to post their reviews or thoughts here. This month our guest is AnimeJune from the great blog Gossamer Obsessions.…
Who: Li, of the fantastic book review blog Me and My Books. Li is another blogger who we stalk on the regular–and it shows in TBR purchases. It is because of Li that we met some of our favorite…
Who: Kate, the incredibly intelligent and wonderful woman that runs the review blog What Kate’s Reading. Kate runs a fantastic blog, reviewing historical fiction, academic works, non-fiction, romance, and home of the infamous ‘Unbuttoned Yet Tucked In’ series (in…
Day 5 of Smugglivus Who: Carolyn Jean from The Thrillionth Page The Thrillionth Page is one of our favorite blogs and it is all down to the gloriously creative CJ. Her reviews come in many formats: thoughts as she…
Day 5 of Smugglivus Who: Kmont from Lurv a la Mode Kmont in one word: cool. We love her very in-depth reviews of Romance (mostly paranormal), Fantasy and SCi Fi . Her sense of humor is of that kind…
Day 4 of Smugglivus Who: Lisa Trevethan of Urban Fantasy Land Lisa is one of the contributors for Urban Fantasy Land, a fantastic blog for all your Urban Fantasy needs in any format: books, comics, tv and movies. New…
Day 4 of Smugglivus Who: Karen Mahoney, writer of YA and Urban Fantasy whose first story will be published in 2009. She talks about her writing and life at her livejournal: Karen Mahoney. Karen is one of our buddies…
Day 4 of SmugglivusWho: Angiegirl (Angie), solo blogger that runs the EEEEVIL review blog, Angieville. (Why EEEEVIL? Because Angie is single-handedly responsible for quadrupling Thea’s TBR this year.) Angie’s blog is one we stalk for book recommendations–she always has…