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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

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 »

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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 »

Review: Nameless by Lili St. Crow + Giveaway

Review: Nameless by Lili St. Crow + Giveaway

Kat Kennedy reviews Nameless by Lili St Crow, and she may have a fixation on clouds. Find out more about the cloud thing by reading on. Also, more about Nameless!

A Review of Every YA Book I’ve Ever Read: Contemporary Edition

A Review of Every YA Book I’ve Ever Read: Contemporary Edition

Kat Kennedy reviews Every YA Book I’ve Ever Read (contemporary version). In which she expounds about the great book she’s read about twenty-five times.

Buzz Worthy News: 6th May 2013

Buzz Worthy News: 6th May 2013

This week, in Buzz Worthy News, 87 year old Harper Lee sues her former literary agent for taking advantage of her age to secure the rights to her book, BFYA nominations are out, Ender’s Game trailer has a trailer – it’s exactly as underwhelming as you can expect of such a thing, and we have controversies! Oh the controversies! Read on to check them out.

Buzz Worthy News is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly news post bringing you all the best information about the book and blogging world, particularly for the venn diagram of people who overlap between the two. For new releases and cover reveals of all the best Young Adult fiction, check out our Sunday post: How New Titles.

Hot New Titles: 5th May 2013

Hot New Titles: 5th May 2013

Welcome to Hot New Titles. This week’s new releases include titles like The Eternity Cure, The Ward, and The Program. We had some pretty big cover reveals including the third redesign for The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan, Shadowlark by Meagan Spooner, Passionaries the sequel to Tonya Hurley’s The Blessed (Precious Blood) and the beautiful new cover to Champion the conclusion to Mare Lu’s Legend series. Is there any wonder why it’s our fav of the week?

5 YA Books I Need Written Now

5 YA Books I Need Written Now

Kat Kennedy reveals five stories she desperately wants to read. Come check it out and share what books you want to read, and hope exist, too.

Blog Tour + Giveaway: Between the Lives by Jessica Shirvington

Blog Tour + Giveaway: Between the Lives by Jessica Shirvington

Interview and Giveaway for the Blog Tour of Jessica Shirvington’s Between the Lives.

Review: Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

Review: Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

Don’t read this. Not even as a joke. It’s just not worth it.

Dark Days Author Interview with Josin L. McQuein + Giveaway

Dark Days Author Interview with Josin L. McQuein + Giveaway

Steph and Kat travel to the Forbidden Forest for a Q&A session with Josin L. McQuein, author of Arclight. As expected, things get a little crazy. Read more of the adventure!

Review: Arclight by Josin L. McQuein

Review: Arclight by Josin L. McQuein

Adrienne Fray reviews Arclight by Josin L. McQuein. Find out why she can’t wait for a sequel.

Review: Storm by Brigid Kemmerer

Review: Storm by Brigid Kemmerer

Steph Sinclair reviews Storm by Brigid Kemmerer, the first book in the addictive Elemental series. Elemental Virgin? Not anymore.

Buzz Worthy News: 29th April 2013

Buzz Worthy News: 29th April 2013

This week in Buzz Worthy News: Fifteen year old Bella Thorne signs a series deal, Wikipedia messed with the wrong novelists, Amazon don’t want you 2,500 word or less novel, Deborah Copaken Kogan gives us an insight into what many female authors suffer through in the publication process and the first reviews are in for ARCs given away as part of Cuddlebuggery’s LBBA Project! All this and more on this week’s Buzz Worthy News!

Hot New Titles: 28th April 2013

Hot New Titles: 28th April 2013

Welcome to Hot New Titles. This week’s new releases include titles like Arclight, Quintana of Charyn, and Unnatural Creatures. Cover reveals include the redesign of Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan for the paperback edition along with the brand new cover of the sequel, Untold. There’s also the redesign of Slammed by Colleen Hover and the new cover for Unhinged, the sequel to A.G. Howard’s Alice in Wonderland retelling, Splintered!

Review: September Girls by Bennett Madison

Review: September Girls by Bennett Madison

Steph Sinclair reviews September Girls by Bennett Madison and rages. Find out why she calls it the worst book she’s ever read.

Things To Do While Everyone Else is at BEA

Things To Do While Everyone Else is at BEA

Kat muses on things she will be doing while Steph and everyone else is off having a blast at BEA. Basically, she wallows in a bowl of ice cream.

Review: The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George

Review: The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George

Adrienne Fray reviews The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George. Find out why she calls the story “a jumbled, monotonous and transparent mess”.

Buzz Worthy News: 22nd April 2013

Buzz Worthy News: 22nd April 2013

This week on Buzz Worthy News: A high school teacher gets a book deal and lives the dream, A new list of frequently challenged books is out for you to go read, Adele turns down a biography deal, should sci-fi be compulsory, Divergent #3 gets a title, all this and more on this week’s Buzz Worthy News!

Hot New Titles: 21st April 2013

Hot New Titles: 21st April 2013

Welcome to Hot New Titles. This week’s new releases include titles like Game, Taken, and The Symptoms of My Insanity. There weren’t many cover reveals this week, but we were treated to the redesign of Severed Heads, Broken Hearts now titled The Beginning of Everything, the new cover of the fantasy novel Outcast and for the Cuddlebuggery Fav of the Week: A Shard of Ice!

Review: Arclight by Josin L. McQuein

Review: Arclight by Josin L. McQuein

Steph Sinclair reviews one of her most anticipated titles of 2013, Arclight by Josin L. McQuein. Find out why she feels it did not disappoint her!

Review: The Symptoms of My Insanity by Mindy Raf

Review: The Symptoms of My Insanity by Mindy Raf

Steph Sinclair reviews The Symptoms of My Insanity by Mindy Raf, muses over awkward teen moments and rages over the last 3rd of the novel. Find out why!

Review: The Collector by Victoria Scott

Review: The Collector by Victoria Scott

Kat Kennedy reviews The Collector by Victoria Scott and struggles not to swoon, or cry. Come read why.

Review: Ink by Amanda Sun

Review: Ink by Amanda Sun

Adrienne Fray reviews Ink by Amanda Sun and expresses extreme disappointment in the main character. Find out why!

Buzz Worthy News 15th April 2013

Buzz Worthy News 15th April 2013

A Charlotte Bronte manuscript sold for buttloads of money, people love libraries, Occupy Wall Street got justice for the theft of their library by New York City Police, Young Adult Books are kicking butt in sales and author Hugh Howey stirs massive controversy in the book blogging world. All this and more in this week’s Buzz Worthy News.

Buzz Worthy News is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly news post bringing you all the best information about the book and blogging world, particularly for the venn diagram of people who overlap between the two. For new releases and cover reveals of all the best Young Adult fiction, check out our Sunday post: How New Titles.

Hot New Titles: 14th April 2013

Hot New Titles: 14th April 2013

Welcome to Hot New Titles. This week’s new releases include titles like Apollyon, The Shadow Girl, and The Stone Demon. There were some amazing cover reveals this week including the redesign for the paperback edition of Starters by Lisa Price and title change for Lenore Applelhan’s Level 2, now The Memory of After. Also, Tor.com totally kicked ass this week with the reveals of two of their up and coming short stories: The Stranger by Anna Banks (Of Poseidon) and The Too-Clever Fox by Leigh Bardugo (Shadow and Bone), which also happens to be the Cuddlebuggery Fav of the Week!

In 10 Lines: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

In 10 Lines: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Welcome to In 10 Lines. Ever wanted to know what happens in a book, but couldn’t be assed reading it for yourself? Cuddlebuggery comes to the rescue with In 10 Lines. In 10 Lines we will tell you everything you need to know about the featured book so that you can cheerfully move on with your life, or choose to read it should your attention be piqued. So sit back, relax, and try not to clench as we proceed.

Today we’ll be reworking Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, one of Steph’s favourite and an amazing series. Fun, sexy, flirty and dangerous – this series generally causes people to rave generously in the direction of either Mal or Darling with incessant passion. So without further adieu, we present to you: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo in 10 Lines!

Five Tips for Redesigning Your Site to Be Awesome + Giveaway

Five Tips for Redesigning Your Site to Be Awesome + Giveaway

Redesigning your blog can be both fun and potentially stressful. Thankfully, you have us to give you some not-so-serious-and-non-surefire tips for success and our awesome designer to offer an awesome giveaway. Also, Abs.