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Odds ‘n ends over the week about books and reading that caught my eye. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:

• I’ve decided to tell you guys a story about piracy. — Maggie Stiefvater tells a story about the impact of ebook piracy. This post is a keeper, one to throw at all the people you know who are far too comfortable violating copyright laws.
• Myke Cole on Siege Line and Wrapping up the Reawakening Trilogy — Unbound Worlds talks to Myke Cole about his new book and what’s to come.
• …and B&N has a little to say about the book: Myke Cole Builds a Genre of His Own in Siege Line
• Lin-Manuel Miranda on Adapting The Kingkiller Chronicles, How It Inspired Moana, and the Lady Lackless Song He Wrote
• Speaking of Rothfuss: Patrick Rothfuss’ Kingkiller Three – A New Update! — blah
• and continuing the theme: 20 Patrick Rothfuss Quotes From Kingkiller Chronicles And More
• that’s a pretty thematically-oriented list, isn’t it?

A Book-ish Related Podcast Episode you might want to give a listen:
• Craig Johnson on Author Stories Podcast — Johnson talks about The Western Star, the TV show, writing and the future.

This Week’s New Releases I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
• Siege Line by Myke Cole — you may have surmised from the above, that Cole’s new book is out. This is the third in the prequel Reawakening trilogy, and should be a blast.
• Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly — Bosch is back, with a new case and a blast from the past.

Lastly, I’d like to say hi and welcome to Simple Ula for following the blog this week.

Odds ‘n ends over the week about books and reading that caught my eye. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:

• Cover versions: why are UK and US book jackets often so different? — Frankly, I disagree with the story’s take on Clinton’s US cover, but the rest of this is quite interesting. Love reading this kind of thing.
• What Writers Can Learn From Goodnight Moon — Don’t know much about Ng, but I enjoyed this.
• 12 Words with Luca Veste — 1. I think this interview “style” is pretty cool, and I want to go read more of them just for this and 2. Veste is always entertaining. Put the 2 of them together, and you’ve got something.
• 13 Literary Takes on the Lives of Animals — haven’t heard of any of these, but might track a few down
• 10+ Times Writers Took Book Dedications To Another Level —

I wish I knew who was behind some of these, but they’re all worth a read. I knew Derek Landy was funny, didn’t realize he didn’t keep it just to the stories.

A Book-ish Related Podcast Episode you might want to give a listen:
• Mysterypod with Ace Atkins — Atkins talks to Stephen Usery about his latest Quinn Colson and Spenser novels, and race relations in the South and Boston.

This Week’s New Releases I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
• Paradox Bound by Peter Clines — looks like a fun time travel novel through US history.
• Horizon by Fran Wilde — which serves as a good reminder that I’ve inexplicably not read Cloudbound.

Lastly, I’d like to say hi and welcome to nishlovepink, foodlove16, Scarletpiper, georgederringer and youngadultallegiance for following the blog this week.

Odds ‘n ends over the week about books and reading that caught my eye. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:

• How Books Designed for Soldiers’ Pockets Changed Publishing Forever — the more you know . . .
• The Gumshoe Site reports that Reed Farrel Coleman’s Where it Hurts and Joe Ide’s IQ (and 2 things I haven’t heard of) won 2017 Shamus Awards
• Matthew Norman: How I Write — some good snippets from Norman
• The Name’s Wolfe, Nero Wolfe: Rex Stout’s Influence on Ian Fleming — 2 weeks in a row with Wolfe pieces. Do I know how to attract readers or what? Possibly interesting to non-Wolfe readers as well.
• Why You Should Read More Than One Book at a Time — not sure I buy it all, but this is good

A Book-ish Related Podcast Episode you might want to give a listen:
• SYFY25: Origin Stories Podcast with Neil Gaiman — thanks to very effective YouTube advertising, I tried a couple of episodes of Syfy’s Origin Stories podcast. I thought this one with Gaiman was just great.

Lastly, I’d like to say hi and welcome to Web Development (probably not the name he goes by), mitchavanza33, bigpetetafemd75 and One Stop Literary Services for following the blog this week.

Odds ‘n ends over the week about books and reading that caught my eye. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:

• Indie Booksellers Report Solid Summer Sales — Yay.
• Why Books and Reading Are More Important Than Ever — am not certain More Important is true, but it’s a nice little post.
• Do celebrity book blurbs ‘blackmail’ readers? — good grief.
• Cover Reveal: THE HIDDEN FACE — Friend of the Blog, S. C. Flynn, has a new book coming out and the nifty new cover has been revealed.
• Supanova TV Episode 10 — a nice chat with Patricia Briggs
• In The Spotlight: Don Winslow’s The Dawn Patrol — a good look at my favorite Winslow book.
• 10 Books That Were Written on a Bet

This Week’s New Release that I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
• The Hangman’s Sonnet by Reed Farrel Coleman — Coleman continues his excellent run on the Jesse Stone series. Here’s what I had to say about it.

Lastly, I’d like to say hi and welcome to The Lyrictrotter for following the blog this week.

Odds ‘n ends over the week about books and reading that caught my eye. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:

• Claire Messud: ‘Maybe in 50 years there won’t be novels’ — “As her fifth novel is published, the American writer warns that shrinking attention spans could prove the death of long fiction” yeah, okay.
• Seanan McGuire on What She Learned From October
• In the wake of the Game of Thrones finale, indulge in the nostalgia of Dragonlance — I’m not sure I agree with this, but anyone talking Dragonlance gets me happy.
• A Better Place — Jamie Schultz tweeted this link to his new short story. Dug it.
• Reverend Spooner, Father of the Spoonerism — as is the case with every article on Spooner/Spoonerisms, this piece would’ve been better with more examples. Still — a good read.

A Book-ish Related Podcast Episode you might want to give a listen:
• Author Stories at Dragon Con – Jim Butcher Q&A Panel — on The Author Stories Podcast this week, they’ve posted a few episodes related to Dragon-Con — including this very entertaining Q&A with Jim Butcher. Got a couple of nice tid-bits about upcoming books, too.

This week was one of those overwhelming weeks with just too much to keep up with — I’d have been sunk if I hadn’t read a couple of these early. Here are the latest batch of New Releases I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
• The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire — the 11th Toby Daye novel (and 1st Hardcover!) starts a whole new story arc, and . . . wow. It was just so good. Stop reading this and go get it.
• The Western Star by Craig Johnson — have heard Johnson talk about this one in a couple of interviews while writing it, been looking forward to it for months.
• Skyfarer by Joseph Brassey — This Space Opera knocked my socks off — and it will do the same for you, probably. See my original post here.
• Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions by Amy Stewart — not my favorite of the three Kopp Sisters novels, but that’s more about how good the others were, this story about Constance trying to save three very different young women is worth your time. My post about it is here.
• Sourdough by Robin Sloan — I’ve tried and failed for the last two years to talk about Sloan’s last novel, hopefully I do better with this one. Having seen what he can do with a font, a bookstore and Google — I can’t wait so see what he does with a sourdough starter, the Bay Area and technology.
• Luck Favors the Prepared by Nathaniel Barber — a good collection of short non-fiction stories that are as funny as they are well-written. See the book tour stop promoting the book from this week here.

Lastly, I’d like to say hi and welcome to His Perfect Timing for following the blog this week.

Odds ‘n ends over the week about books and reading that caught my eye — fair warning, these are basically all about things I fanboy over. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:

• Teaser Trailer for Plague of Giants — Audiobook narrator extraordinaire Luke Daniels cut together a teaser trailer for the upcoming Kevin Hearne epic fantasy.
• An Addictive Author — Lawrence De Maria has discovered Nero Wolfe and, as all right thinking people do, has become a fan. I loved reading this.
• https://www.eater.com/2017/8/31/16216310/20th-century-detectives-food — Speaking of Wolfe, here’s a very intriguing look at what his food obsession (and that of Wimsey and Poirot) say about the character
• A Journalist at Heart — an interview with Michael Connelly by Alafair Burke (who knows a thing or two about writing mysteries)
• 15 Things You Might Not Know About Dorothy Parker — blah

This Week’s New Releases I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
• Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo — after the splash the movie made this summer, it’s no surprise that this book is showing up everywhere on all my social media feeds. Oh, and the book looks good, too.
• Kiss The Devil Goodnight by Jonathan Woods — the latest from Fahrenheit Press. I’m not going to even try to say anything about it until it gets read. Just click the link in the title there.

Lastly, I’d like to say hi and welcome to Vinayak Gupta and Matt Cowper for following the blog this week.
(not true about me, it’d ruin the larger book’s binding. . . . philistines)