Whether you have to write a book review for class or you’re hoping to help out some other readers, you’re about to sit down and compose a book review. In order to produce one that is really useful, what are some tips to keep in mind? Read on to find out – your readers will thank you. Read The Book While this might make you say DUH, you’d be surprised how many people attempt to write reviews of books they’ve never read. By doing so, not only are you misleading…
Yay! Christmas Week has arrived! Christmas Day is fast approaching *woo hoo* and there’s lots to look forward to here on Book Chick City. So sit back with a glass of mulled wine and a delicious mince pie and enjoy! My Christmas Memories by Jackie Merry Christmas everyone! I seriously can’t believe that it’s already Christmas, can you? When Carolyn first asked me to participate in her week long series of Christmas Memories, I started to think of my past Christmases and I realized something – it was just another…
Yay! Christmas Week has arrived! Christmas Day is fast approaching *woo hoo* and there’s lots to look forward to here on Book Chick City. So sit back with a glass of mulled wine and a delicious mince pie and enjoy! My Christmas Memories by Tori Thanks so much Carolyn for having me on your blog. I love Christmas. It is one of my favorite holidays. Not just because of the presents (though those are a nice part-lol) but because it seems everyone is just a little bit nicer. I love…
Yay! Christmas Week has arrived! Christmas Day is fast approaching *woo hoo* and there’s lots to look forward to here on Book Chick City. So sit back with a glass of mulled wine and a delicious mince pie and enjoy! My Christmas Memories by Carmel My fondest Christmas memories are those of when I was a kid before life got in the way and the holiday season lost some of its sparkle. I’m working on making the season magical again but it’s going to take some time. Growing up, I…
Yay! Christmas Week has arrived! Christmas Day is fast approaching *woo hoo* and there’s lots to look forward to here on Book Chick City. So sit back with a glass of mulled wine and a delicious mince pie and enjoy! My Christmas Memories by Natasha When Carolyn asked me to guest blog about my favourite holiday memory, I knew I had to share the events of last years Christmas. It all started with me begging bestfriend number 1 to get a real tree this year, see in my family we…
Yay! Christmas Week has arrived! Christmas Day is fast approaching *woo hoo* and there’s lots to look forward to here on Book Chick City. So sit back with a glass of mulled wine and a delicious mince pie and enjoy! My Christmas Memories by Julia I can’t think about Christmas without thinking of my family’s tree growing up. Each year my mom would pick out that perfect, live Douglas fir, my dad would wrap it in so many colored lights each branch would shine and the whole family would decorate…
Nick Castle is the design artist behind many urban fantasy covers, such as Spellcrackers.com series by Suzanne McLeod, Mercedes Thompson series by Patricia briggs, Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris, and of course Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn. As this is Kitty month, I thought it would be fun to learn how covers come into being, and Nick was kind enough to write about the process. So please give Nick a warm welcome… I was commissioned to repackage the Kitty series by Carrie Vaughn in 2007 by Lucie Stericker,…
Yay! Christmas Week has arrived! Christmas Day is fastly approaching *woo hoo* and there’s lots to look forward to here on Book Chick City. So sit back with a glass of mulled wine and a delicious mince pie and enjoy! I have the best Christmas memories!! Christmas has always been fun, exciting, and full of wonderful family moments. Except for one year. In Christmas 2003, I was seven months pregnant with my first child. We had just spent the morning with my inlaws where I received tons of baby stuff….
I am very excited to welcome Kai as a guest on my blog as part of All Hallows Eve, talking about one of the horror greats – Clive Barker. I first ‘met’ Kai on Goodreads – we have a shared love of all things horror and zombie. We regularly recommend books to each other and as a consequence have added numerous books to our ever growing TBR piles! Kai also has a fab new blog: Fiction State of Mind, so make sure you stop by! Take it away, Kai… ••••••••••••••••••••••…
Why I Read YA by Jenny Blog: Wondrous Reads Twitter: @WondrousReads When people ask me why I’m 23 years old and still reading as much YA as I can get my hands on, I often shrug and quickly try to think of a good, intelligent reason. My answer: YA is just better. I do read a handful of adult novels, but they’re very carefully chosen and are definitely in the minority on my bookshelves. I love some series – like Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic books – but I find the majority…
Alejandra Blog: Yummy Hell Faery Twitter: @alebodden11 Something about me—I love paranormal creatures, and Vampires are on my top favorites list. I like seeing the different depictions of vamps people come up with; some might be categorized as ridiculous or odd, and other as genius, but we all can agree with the fact that they are all quite unique. I stumbled upon The House of Night Series when Betrayed (HoN Book #2) came out, I bought both (1 & 2) of them at the same time and goodness — Did…
Amanda Blog: Not-Really-Southern Vamp Chick Twitter: @NRSVampChick So I was super excited when I heard Book Chick City was having a House of Night Week! I’ve had many conversations about this series. It seems to be one that a lot of people are split over. You either really enjoy it, or you don’t. I really enjoy it! I think it’s a great, fresh spin on vampires, or in this series’s case vampyres. My favorite thing is how it adds Cherokee legend and magic into the mix with vampyres. I’m from…
I have a confession to make. The first male urban fantasy writer I ever read has ruined all other male UF writers for me. He’s gritty, dirty and really disgusting. To be honest, sometimes he scares me with his knowledge of things better left in a dark closet, never to see the light of day. This author is Mark Henry. You see, when I was an innocent, new to the genre reader, I by chance saw the cover of Happy Hour of the Damned and picked it up. I’ve never…
Gav from NextRead loves to read science fiction, fantasy and crime. He’s here today to talk about his favourite male urban fantasy writers. Take it away Gav… Being a man and not so much a fan of Paranormal Romance, which seems to be the default when talking about Urban Fantasy, I must admit that it’s a little strange to have a week focused to the Men of Urban Fantasy. Not that’s it’s a bad thing at all to do. It just makes it feel like I’m the abnormal one… If…
I’m pleased to be here at Book Chick City today talking about my favorite romantic moments. Thank you so much for inviting me Carolyn. Being a true romance junkie, I love the thought of a big tough hero turning to marshmallow for his mate and not caring who knows it. So, I’ve decided to share a few of my favorites romantic scenes from J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood. I can’t think of a better example of the tough guy turning sweet marshmallow for love. We all know know the Brothers…
