Posts by: Kat Kennedy

Buzz Worth News: 24 December 2012

Buzz Worth News: 24 December 2012

In this week’s Buzz Worthy News: Penguin finally settles, Macmillan announces the launch of Swoon Reads – The publishing world’s answer to So You Think You Can Dance? Neil Gaiman breaks everyone’s hearts but this time not with a book, a seventeen year old gets a book deal after her online writing gets over 19 million views, and Beth Revis is going where no YA author has gone before! All this and much, much more! Click to read more!

Buzz Worthy News is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly, regular Monday post bringing you all the most interesting news on the publishing world. For cover reveals and new releases, check out our Sunday post, Hot New Titles.

5 Products they need to make for Book Bloggers

5 Products they need to make for Book Bloggers

Sometimes things are invented with such a limited use and small fanbase, that you wonder how even one person could conceive and invest in it, let alone several. These crazy things somehow exist out there, but I could easily think of five products that bloggers desperately need right now. Why haven’t they been invented? Why hasn’t some enterprising entrepreneur begun mass marketing a new invention to make book blogger’s lives useful?

Buzz Worthy News: 17th December 2012

Buzz Worthy News: 17th December 2012

Is New Adult a genre? An illustrator proposes to his girlfriend in his acknowledgments, Amazon’s bestselling list of 2012 is out (spoiler: I’m not on it). Hans Christian Anderson’s once again delighting the world with a fresh story, and we have infographs! Because we know how much our readers here at Cuddlebuggery love their infographs!

Buzz Worthy News is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly, regular Monday post bringing you all the most interesting news on the publishing world. For cover reveals and new releases, check out our Sunday post, Hot New Titles.

Review War: Crewel by Gennifer Albin

Review War: Crewel by Gennifer Albin

Kat Kennedy and Stephanie Sinclair duke it out over Crewel by Gennifer Albin. Steph is for it and Kat is against – who wins? You decide! Read on to find out.

Christmas Gift Book Guide for Teens

Christmas Gift Book Guide for Teens

Kat Kennedy and Stephanie Sinclair present to you a list of Books to buy for Christmas this year. For confused parents, interested teens and the young at heart. Get involved in the Christmas spirit by buying your books from GoodBooks Interational – an online book site that donates proceeds to Oxfam!

Buzz Worthy News 10th December 2012

Buzz Worthy News 10th December 2012

Welcome to this week’s Buzz Worthy News! Kat Kennedy is back after her month long break to bring you all the fun, juicy stuff! So, what’s been happening? Cosmopolitan and Harlequin are joining together to take over the world, Eloise Klein is Los Angeles’ new Poet Laureate, someone decided Tin Tin is not racist. Clearly doesn’t understand the meaning of racism, and the Bad Sex in Literature Award has been given out. Read on to find out all the most fascinating things that we have dished up for you today!

Buzz Wor­thy News is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly Mon­day news post. Bring­ing you all the most inter­est­ing, rel­e­vant and fun news from the pub­lish­ing and book blog­ging world.

Review: Crewel by Gennifer Albin

Review: Crewel by Gennifer Albin

Kat Kennedy reviews Crewel by Gennifer Albin – a novel woven from terrible characters, stitched hastily into a hodge-podge of dullery and torn from the fabric of horribleness. Come see what sparked Kat’s ire.

5 Tips for a Happy Cobloggership

5 Tips for a Happy Cobloggership

Kat Kennedy divulges her five tips for a happy cobloggership. Come read her amazing formula to successful blogging with your bestfriend and blogmate.

Review: Marco Impossible by Hannah Moskowitz

Review: Marco Impossible by Hannah Moskowitz

Kat Kennedy reviews Marco Impossible and tries not to gush and explode into a raving ball of love for Hannah Moskowitz.

Cover Reveal of Antigoddess and Exclusive Interview with Kendare Blake

Cover Reveal of Antigoddess and Exclusive Interview with Kendare Blake

Kat Kennedy and Stephanie Sinclair interview Kendare Blake about the cover reveal for her new novel, Antigoddess. Kat tries to seduce Kendare Blake into exchanging her cover with one of the ones that Kat has mocked up. Read on to see how it goes!

Review: Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor

Review: Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor

Kat Kennedy reviews the highly anticipated sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Days of Blood and Starlight. She muses on romance and hope and naivete, but mostly she muses on her girlcrush for Laini Taylor.

We are thankful for…

Kat Kennedy takes a moment to personally thank the commenters and contributors who make Cuddlebuggery so awesome and fun. Enjoy your thanksgiving my lovely American friends! Try not to die on Black Friday, m’kay?

Review: The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa

Review: The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa

Kat Kennedy runs down what her reading experience was like with The Lost Prince. Spoiler: We found The Lost Prince. Another Spoiler: Abs. Lots and lots of abs. Third Spoiler: Shame. Lots and lots of shame. Read on to find out what happened!

Review: Pivot Point by Kasie West

Review: Pivot Point by Kasie West

Kat Kennedy reviews Pivot Point by Kasie West, a novel about a young woman who can see alternate realities into the future and decide which path in life she wants to take. Kat Kennedy wants to take all paths in life that involve alcohol. Oh wow! That’s all the paths anyway! YEY!

Five Ways to Survive Reading a Bad Book

Five Ways to Survive Reading a Bad Book

Kat Kennedy details five awesome methods for surviving truly horrible book reading experiences. Read on to find out how you too can be a book ninja!

Reveals and Releases

Reveals and Releases

Check out this week’s new releases and cover reveals – of which there were a lot of. The Highlights, some incredible covers, some unexpected covers and some…interesting covers. Read on to check them out.

Five Tips for Seducing Book Bloggers

Five Tips for Seducing Book Bloggers

Ever struggled to generate interest in your book and hook book bloggers into reviewing it? Looking desperately at the magical 50 reviews on Amazon and wondering how best to make it happen? Kat Kennedy lays down some tips and advice based on the many, many review requests that Cuddlebuggery receives and the experience we have with the requests we approve. What’s the difference between acceptance and rejection for us at Cuddlebuggery? Read on to find out!

Buzz Worthy News 22 October 2012

Buzz Worthy News 22 October 2012

Buzz Worthy News Wel­come to this week’s Buzz Wor­thy News! […]

Reveals and Releases

Reveals and Releases

Come to see the hottest books to come out this week and the brand new titles with their brand new covers to drool over!

5 Reasons Your Young Adult Novel Might Suck

5 Reasons Your Young Adult Novel Might Suck

Kat Kennedy breaks down 5 Reasons Your Young Adult Novel Might Suck and covers many of the baffling and not so baffling ways that teenagers are written in YA these days. Read on to find out more!

Cover Reveal: Arclight by Josin L. McQuein

Cover Reveal: Arclight by Josin L. McQuein

We reveal the cover to Josin L. McQuein’s new novel, Arclight – but first we give her the option of possibly having one of the three snazzy covers we mocked up for her instead.

Cover Reveal: Phoebe Pope and the Year of Four by Nya Jade + Giveaway

Cover Reveal: Phoebe Pope and the Year of Four by Nya Jade + Giveaway

We reveal the new cover for Nya Jade’s book, Phoebe Pope and the Year of Four and give you a chance to win a $100 gift card for Tiffany & Co.

Buzz Worthy News: 15 October 2012

Buzz Worthy News: 15 October 2012

Wel­come to this week’s Buzz Wor­thy News! Fifty Shades of Grey apparently has not plot, J.K. Rowling is writing children’s books again, the Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded, and small presses kicked butt in the Man Booker Prize! All this and much, much more. Read on to find out every­thing that’s been hap­pen­ing in the book world this week.

Buzz Wor­thy News is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly Mon­day news post. Bring­ing you all the most inter­est­ing, rel­e­vant and fun news from the pub­lish­ing and book blog­ging world.

Hot New Releases and Reveals

Hot New Releases and Reveals

Check out this week’s releases and new cover reveals including the covers for Renegade, Red, Fractured and Afterglow.

4 Reasons Self-Published titles are sometimes better

4 Reasons Self-Published titles are sometimes better

Kat Kennedy runs through four great reasons to be reading self-pubbed novels, if you’re not already. Check it out to see what you could be missing.