Buzz Worthy News: April 24, 2017
Welcome to Buzz Worthy News where the stories are awesome (or at least fun to read). Need your book industry news? Never fear, Kate Copeseeley is here to give it to you straight. In this week’s Buzz Worthy News: #CloakandDagger Trailer, Cast Rumors for Aladdin, and... Keep Reading »
Hot New Titles: July 14th 2015
Welcome to Hot New Titles the feature that supports the decision to buy ALL THE BOOKS listed. Weeeeeeeee! New releases include About a Girl by Sarah McCarry, The Blind Wish by Amber Lough and Deceptive by Emily Lloyd-Jones. Cover reveals include Glass Sword by... Keep Reading »
How to Make Your Own Fantasy Map
What I see a lot of from avid readers is an intense love of maps in fantasy books. They seem to collect them and talk about them and compare them. Which, to me, is like collecting, talking and comparing bits of chewing gum wrappers. I may occasionally feign interest in a... Keep Reading »
Hot New Titles: April 21, 2015
New releases include Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman, Endangered by Lamar Giles and Becoming Jinn by Lori Goldstein.
Book deals to put on your radar: My Body Was Made for This by Calla Devlin, How to Disappear by Ann Redisch Stampler and Doreen by Ilana Manaster.
Cover reveals include The Foxglove Killings by Tara Kelly, Marrow by Tarryn Fisher and Shades of Darkness by A.R. Kahler, our fav of the week! Stunning!
Review: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
There’s sabotage, scheming, and various twists enough for the bloodthirstiest and most action-hungry, and things end in a satisfying enough way to leave the future open to plenty of possibility without being too open-ended. None of it is truly new or unique (in comparison to the setting, anyway), with plenty of reliance on those familiar rehashings of the dangers of overconfidence, the importance of friends, and so on. But all of it (generally speaking) has been done before, right?
