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Writer Wednesday Blog Hop #21

Every week I weed through over 100 blogs, looking for writing advice and new and interesting books to read. Considering how time consuming this is, I share the posts I find the most interesting here every week. If you’d like me to add your blog to my feeder or a link from my weekly tour, leave a comment on the most current tour or send me a link via Twitter @by_wjhoward.

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On Guide to Literary Agents, 7 Things I've Learned So Far, by Holly Schindler
We've been blogging about our characters on Bloodleggers. By co-writer R.J. Robyn, Searching for Billy Knox... and by me, two part interviews with Regina Todd
On Dark Faerie Tales, Author Interview & Giveaway: 13 to Life by Shannon Delany

All About Books

On Bitten By Books, How Honest Is Too Honest In A Review?
On Book Junkie, Bookswim Book Rentals

Book reviews that caught my eye this week, and the books that got added to my GoodReads to-read list:

On Fangtastic Books, A Review of Dark Oracle by Alayna Williams
On Darkly Reading, Review of The Mage in Black by Jaye Wells
On Fantasy Literature's Fantasy Book Reviews, The Etched City: Dark and decadent
On Farm Lane Books Blog, Red April – Santiago Roncagliolo

All About Writing & Publishing

That Author Ecopy Comes With A Hefty Price Tag on Pub Rants

Weekly Features

Literary Agent, Nathan Bransford's This Week in Publishing & The Rejection Letter of the Future Will Be Silence (And Why This is a Good Thing)
Win on Wednesday on All Things Urban Fantasy
This week's Where Stories are Made: Thomas Emson over at Book Chick City
On Book Lovers Inc., Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review
On Overbury Ink, Number 38 – Part 6, by Ian Eliot LeWinter
NEW On Dark Faerie Tales, Publishing News

Blogging Events

September 13 - 17, Book Blogger Appreciation Week

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On Biting Edge, Start Saving Your Pennies... mentions that James Bond's car from Goldfinger is for sale and expected to sell for over $5 million. There's also some news on a future Bond book, as well as a link to a website with pictures of some really COOL bookshelves of the non human kind.
Here's an review of Jaws, by Peter Benchley. It's always fun to run across modern day reviews of older books.
On Fangtastic Books, Welcome Guest Author Yolanda Sfetsos

Books I Want to Read

Book reviews that caught my eye this week, and the books that got added to my GoodReads to-read list:

On Bitten by Books, Ouroboros by Michael Kelly and Carol Weekes
On Book Lovers, Inc., Review: Shades of Gray by Caitlin Kittredge & Jackie Kessler
On Book Whisperer, Review: Blood Song by Cat Adams & Review: Blood Song by Cat Adams
On The Cajun Book Lady, Review: The Second Coming by David H Burton

All About Writing & Publishing

On 1st Turning Point, Pointless Networking ain't so pointless when you make those accidental connections
On the Wicked Writer's blog, Long live the book… A view on the publishing industry
On Jim C. Hines blog, Reading Reviews
On The Journey is Everything, The Five Stages Of Author Booksignings

Weekly Features

Book Blogger Hop at Crazy for Books
Follow Friday for blogs at Parajunkee's View
Literary Agent, Nathan Bransford's This Week in Publishing is a blog tour of sorts.
Win on Wednesday on All Things Urban Fantasy.
This week's Where Stories Are Made: Jaime Rush over at Book Chick City
On Book Lovers Inc., Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review

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Writer Wednesday Blog Hop #19

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On Enchanted by Books, Guest Author Carolyn Crane & Giveaway! discusses the "Top 6 cool things about being a series author that I never expected"

Books I Want to Read

Book reviews that caught my eye this week, and the books that got added to my GoodReads to-read list:

On Bookgasm, Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer — and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets AND I Am Not a Serial Killer AND Tooth and Claw
NEW FAV On Book Lovers, Review: Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane +Giveaway
Looks like a pretty good list on Farm Lane's Book Blog in The Best Literary Science Fiction Books?

All About Writing & Publishing

Platform, Shmatform on A Newbie's Guide to Publishing shows you don't have to be an established author to be a top seller.
NEW BLOG On Guide to Literary Agents, 7 Tips on Book Publicity. I also watch Livia Blackburne's blog and she provides excellent advice. On her blog, How to Get (and Keep) People's Attention was a great read this week
On 1st Turning Point, Marketing Before Publication? How About Before It’s Written?
On Biting Edge, Writers and Readers...what we owe each other
Fear was a focus on Copyblogger in Is F.E.A.R. Holding You Back? AND 7 Quick-Start Techniques for Fighting the Fear to Write
On Editorial Ass, How to Throw an Awesome Book Launch
On Passion on Paper by Gina Leigh Maxwell, Terrible Twos-day: Word Count vs. Words That Count
On Wordplay, 8 Ways Longhand Writing Frees Your Muse
On Richard Dansky's blog, Seven Things You Should Always Ask A Writer. We used the question about which book you wished you'd written this week on Vamplit Writers
On Leterary Agent Rachelle Gardner's blog, Getting People to Read Your Book

Weekly Features

Book Blogger Hop at Crazy for Books
Follow Friday for blogs at Parajunkee's View
Literary Agent, Nathan Bransford's This Week in Publishing is a blog tour of sorts. I also enjoyed What Makes a Great Setting
Win on Wednesday on All Things Urban Fantasy
This week's Where Stories are Made: Keri Arthur over at Book Chick City
NEW On Book Lovers Inc., Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review
On Overbury Ink, Number 38, part 5 by Ian Eliot LeWinter

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Writer Wednesday Blog Tour #13

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It's National Library Week and The Neverending Shelf posted Libraries: Your Home Away from Home and The State of Americas Libraries, both great reads. We reposted the later on the Wicked Writer's blog.
On Fantasy Author Jim C. Hines blog this week I happened across a creative idea for those who need help reviewing books in Mad Lib Reviewing I'm still chuckling. FAV!
Just wanted to quickly mention that I love Paul D. Brazill's blog.
Author Interview ~ Nicole Hadaway at Listen to the Voices
Book reviews that caught my eye this week, and the books that got added to my GoodReads to-read list:
- Over at Fiction Fixon, Review: Frost Moon by Anthony Francis and Review: Silver Kiss by Naomi Clark
- Over at Fantasy Literature, Waking the Moon: One of my Desert Island books, Under Heaven: Award-worthy, The Stones of Green Knowe: Very sad to see its end, and especially Primavera: A fascinating story
- Review: Hourglass by Claudia Gray at Book Lovers Inc.
- Ex-Heros at Bookgasm is not a favorable review, but I'm still tempted to read. And how could you not add a book like Body World when the review begins, "Imagine if David Lynch and David Cronenberg collaborated on a graphic novel."
Don't miss these weekly features:
- Win on Wednesday on All Things Urban Fantasy.
- This week's Where Stories are Made: Marianne de Pierres over at Book Chick City

All About Writing & Publishing

Publishers + Ebooks = Epic Fail on a Newbie's Guide to Publishing really makes me want to self-publish FAV!
Nurmal Resources PUBLISH ME! Contest on the Writer's Beware blog
Daydream or Die on Wordplay
AutoCrit: A Helpful Tool for Editing Flash Fiction is about a fun tool you can try out on the Internet. I especially found the repeated word function helpful. Would love to know if anyone is paying to use this tool.
Choosing the Right Titles for Your Work (Or: Heh, You Said Titular)
James Moore on Deadlines over at Storytellers Unplugged

Other Blog Tours

Blogmania is Sweeping the Web over at Between the Pages is an opportunity to tour blogs and win prizes
Book Blogger Hop at Crazy for Books
Follow Friday for blogs at Parajunkee's View
Literary Agent, Nathan Bransford's This Week in Publishing is a blog tour of sorts.

Writer Wednesday Blog Tour #12

Every week I weed through over 100 blogs, looking for writing advice and new books to add to my reading queue. Considering how time consuming this is, I share the posts I find the most interesting here every week. If you’d like me to add your blog to my feeder or a link from my weekly tour, leave a comment on the most current tour or send me a link via Twitter @by_wjhoward.

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There were a couple of good opinion posts on owning the rights to multiple book formats. A Matter of Ethics on Nathan Bransford's blog and Questionable Ethics on Writer Beware Blog!, a new blog I added to my watch list this week
Paranormal Summer Fest is Coming at All Things Urban Fantasy
A few March wrap ups on book reviews: Books Read for March 2010 and Being Eaten By Books at Babbling About Books, and More, March Wrap-Up at Book Addict, Month in Review: March '10 at Book Chick City
5 Incredibly Strange Sherlock Holmes Books at Bookgasm
Interview with Shannon K. Butcher over at DemonLover's Book Reviews & More!
Book reviews that caught my eye this week, and the books that got added to my GoodReads to-read list:
- Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder-Trailer & Website launch TODAY over at All Things Urban Fantasy. Bitten By Books also did a few reviews of this book along with a review of Sea Glass that was pretty favorable. Fantastic Book Reviews also gave it a 5 out of 5. This book is getting some smokin' reviews. Might have to go to the top of my queue.
- [ARC Review] - A Certain Wolfish Charm on Anna Vivian's blog
- Where Angels Fear to Tread by Thomas E. Sniegoski over at Bookgasm
- The Immortality Factor by Ben Bova over at Bookgasm
- Review: Embers by Laura Bickle on Dark Faerie Tales
- Review: Silver Kiss by Naomi Clark at Fiction Vixen
Don't miss these every week:
- Nicole Hadaway's movie & book reviews over at her All Things Smart & Scary. She did a guest post over at Fangtastic Books you should check out.
- Win on Wednesday on All Things Urban Fantasy.
- This week's Where Stories are Made: Jaye Wells over at Book Chick City
- Overbury Ink with a focus on graphic novels and steam punk. This week check out Number 38 – by Ian Eliot LeWinter & #SteamTuesday – Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

All About Writing & Publishing

Click-clack-click-clack-click-ARRRGHHHHH . . . is a fun read on typewriters. I still love 'em event though I had to use some of the worst of the electric ones while in the Air Force. They were also one of my favorite toys as a child. Still have the old one my grandmother gave me.
WOW! All About Co-op on Nathan Bransford's blog about how books make it to the front of the bookstore was quite interesting.
Simple Tips for Increasing Your Blog Readership
Drop by and vote for the 2010 Spinetingler Award Nominees and Poll
10 Tricks For Getting Inspired to Write at Copyblogger
What Makes a Lead Title over at Editorial Ass
Things I Look for in a Novel & Epic Character Questionairre on Labotomy of a Writer
Some Thoughts on Book Promotion & Publishing

Other Blog Tours

Book Blogger Hop at Crazy for Books NEW
Follow Friday for blogs at Parajunkee's View
Literary Agent, Nathan Bransford's This Week in Publishing is a blog tour of sorts.

Writer Wednesday Blog Tour #11

Every week I weed through over 80 blogs, looking for new reading material and writing advice. Considering how time consuming this is, I share the posts I find the most interesting here every week. If you’d like me to add your blog to my feeder or a link to my weekly tour, leave a comment on the most current tour or send me a link via Twitter @by_wjhoward.

All About Writers & Books

Hurry over to Bookgasm to enter to Win Bite Me by Christopher Moore before Friday
Author Interview & Contest with Diana Rowland at Amberkatze's Book Blog
Book reviews that caught my eye this week, and the books that got added to my Goodreads to-read list:
- Book Review: I am Not a Serial Killer over at Book Chick City sounds fabulous
- Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski looked so good I had to get on the wait list now for it at the library
- 5 bat Review: Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater got me to put the first in the series in my reading queue
- Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey - Review
- Creatures of the Pool by Ramsey Campbell, one of my favorite horror authors
Don't miss these every week:
- Nicole Hadaway's movie & book reviews over at her All Things Smart & Scary.
- Win on Wednesday on All Things Urban Fantasy.
- This week's Where Stories are Made: J F Lewis over at Book Chick City. Here are a few other articles and posts you'll enjoy on writers' spaces:

All About Writing & Publishing

How I Became a Better Writer Thanks to Distracted, Hungover College Kids at Copyblogger, "But after years spent writing in professional newsrooms, I was surprised to discover how teaching college students actually helped make me a better student of the craft of writing."
Interesting posts from a few agents out there: On Confidence, or, WWDTD, title, title, title
Query Letter Subject Lines: Act Now!! Get It While It Lasts! is hilarious in that anyone would actually do it
Am I Good Enough to Epublish?
Novel Survey Results, Part III
Best and Worst of Writing over at Labotomy of a Writer

Other Blog Tours

Follow Friday for blogs at Parajunkee's View
Literary Agent, Nathan Bransford's This Week in Publishing is a blog tour of sorts.

Writer Wednesday Blog Tour #8

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This week's highlight was an interview with fellow Wicked Writer Gregory Marshall Smith over at Labotomy of a Writer. I finished reading They Call the Wild Muryah and Greg is quite the new talent in Sci Fi writing. The eBook is free on Smashwords and well worth the read!
There's an awesome new feature over at Book Chick City. A kinda Cribs for writers that features their writing space. This week, Where Stories Are Made: Tim Waggoner. Haven't read his books, but they look pretty darn good, so Nekropolis also ended up in my reading queue.
Over at Writing is About Putting Yourself to Words, How does an unknown author become a Kindle bestseller? Perseverance.
I'm a new fan of Mark Henry, and he guest blogged over at Vampire Wire this week.
And, I've got to support a Colorado writer in Guest Blog, Chat and Contest with Author Mario Acevedo over at Bitten by Books.
Book reviews that caught my eye this week, and the books that got added to my GoodReads to-read list:
- Kalayna Price's Once Bitten and Twice Dead sure have gotten some mixed reviews. Still, I think I might give 'em a try.
- I've got high hopes for the hero type I've been looking for in this review of Defeat the Darkness. But I'll be starting with Dark Protector, the first in the Paladins of Darkness series.
- Bible Black because, "Clearly, it’s not for the easily offended. Really, really not."
- Not new, but the Mageworlds series looks awfully good. I might have to move these one to the top of my read list.
- Being a girl from "sweet home Chicago," I had to put the first in the Chicagoland Vampire series in my queue base on the review of Friday Night Bites by Chloe Neill over at Bitten by Books
- And last but not least, Darkness on the Edge of Town.
Don't miss these every week:
- Nicole Hadaway's movie & book reviews over at her All Things Smart & Scary blog. Nicole guest blogged for us this week over at the Wicked Writer's Blog. And, Nicole finished the first draft of Return, her sequel to Release and I'm so excited for her.
- Win on Wednesday on All Things Urban Fantasy.

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Whoa There, eBook Writer contains some excellent advice for writers and was probably my favorite post this week.
Authors Who Don't Read, doesn't seem like a reality. What do you think about it?
How are Multiple Book Deal Advances says it all in the title. Now I need to get one.
Persistence, a little something I could use so far this year. You also might want to read What I Learned from My 3 Favorite Authors.
Tips for Developing Character Voice from Dee Garretson over at Livia Blackburne blog reminds us writers each character not only has something different to say, they say it differently.
Social Media Networking - Is It Working? from a writer's perspective.

Other Blog Tours

Literary Agent, Nathan Bransford's This Week in Publishing post is a blog tour of sorts. I still haven't gotten to all the links and it was posted last Friday. And, don't miss his post Don't Believe eBook Skeptics.

And...this week I added the following blogs to my watch list: Fantasy Literature & Paranormal Haven. If you'd like me to check out your blog, add a comment below and include a link.

Writer Wednesday Blog Tour #7

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I really enjoyed Fairy Tales Gone Naughty over at Book Junkie because I've dabbled in writing a few of my own. This week wrapped up with guest posts by Brenna Lyons and Natasha Moore
If you're looking for new releases, check out New Vampire Books for March 2010. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith looks really interesting and FUN!
Fellow writers, read some good news over at C.J.'s Daily Grind to remind yourself that the path is not always a difficult one. CONGRATS on all your success, C.J.
More from Ian LeWinter over at Overbury Ink in Why We Write, Part 4. And if you missed Part 1 & Part 2 & Part 3.
Book reviews that caught my eye this week, and the books that got added to my GoodReads to-read list:
- Wished I could have added Dark Legion by Isabella Jordan, reviewed on Bitten by Books, but it's not on GoodReads.
- This review of Blood Cross by Faith Hunter over at Book Lovers, Inc read good enough that I put the first in the series, Skinwalker, in my queue.
- I've seen the book cover to Shift, by Rachel Vincent everywhere this past week. Does that mean I should read the Shifters series? Will I like it or hate it? So I decided to take a moment and read the interview with the author over at Fantasy Literature. Nothing really grabbed me hard about the series, but I did go ahead and put Stray in my to-read list. The reviews are all over the place though, so this one will get ordered up from the library.
- Angelology, and if you hurry, you can enter to win a free copy.
Don't miss these every week:
- Nicole Hadaway's movie & book reviews over at her All Things Smart & Scary.
- Win on Wednesday on All Things Urban Fantasy.

All About Writing & Publishing

One of my favorite posts this week was Contests and My Tedious Ramblings About E-Piracy & Publishers' Websites over at Vampire Wire. I suggest you read through the comments as well.
I had to chuckle a little reading Seven Questions You Should Never Ask a Writer over at Storytellers Unplugged.
A link to All About Sequels came to me from Supriya Savkoor, fellow Wicked Writer. I enjoyed his post as well as a few older ones, and sure hope I don't have acute sequelitis. He sure opened my eyes to the publishing industries take on new writers publishing serial novels.
This scares me: How Publishers Can Use Virtual Currency

Other Blog Tours

Wasn't sure I'd find one this week, but WOW came through. Bonnie Hearn Hill, YA author of Aries Rising, launches her blog tour! Doesn't see look a little like Frasier's agent, what was her name? Bebee?

And...this week I added the following blogs to my watch list: Bookgasm, Nathan Bransford-Literary Agent. If you'd like me to check out your blog, add a comment below and include a link.

Writer Wednesday Blog Tour #5

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I found Guest Blog: DSB on What is Dark Urban Fantasy? interesting but still left me a little in the dark, wondering if The Courier falls into this genre. Also drop by All Things Urban Fantasy for Win on Wednesday, a list published weekly containing urban fantasy contests and giveaways.
Found another book I had to buy in an interview with Keith Melton, author of Blood Vice over at Book Lovers, Inc. Let's just say they had me at "Vampire Mafia story," so I dropped by Keith's website to read the first chapter. Bought it for the Kindle.
Don't forget to check out the regulars:
- Nicole Hadaway's Writer Wednesday over at her Vampire Blogspot. I just finished reading Release, Nicole's first published novel about vampires, werewolves and demons in the middle of Nazi Germany. Look for a book review soon.
- More from Ian LeWinter over at Overbury Ink in Why We Write Part 1 & Part 2.

All About Writing & Publishing

Had to add my two cents over at Defining Perfect Distraction on the WOW blog. It was the first post that jumped out at me yesterday morning with good reason. I'm seriously in distraction mode with my own work, especially while I try to figure out some of the evil side of The Courier.
Fellow Wicked Writer, Steve Liskow guest blogged over at KD Easley's blog this week.
Tambra over at Writers Gone Wild asks Do You Have a Snoozy Muse? She used to teach a class on the subject and provides some excellent advice.

And...this week I added the following blogs to my watch list: Vampire Librarian,

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