Weekend Roundup: Even award winners suck for someone, Understanding lack of eBook ownership
Every Award-Winning Book Sucks (for Someone) (John Scalzi)
As part of my occasional and hopefully instructive series of entries in which I try to make the point to writers that negative reviews...
Book Review by Joanna: The Seventh Compass Point of Death by Richard Sanders
The Seventh Compass Point of Death is an engaging, quick-moving thriller from Richard Sanders. The main character is a journalist-cum-PI who gets involved in a group of wannabe terrorists at...
Ficbot’s websites for authors and readers
Teleread's frequent contributor Joanna, aka Ficbot, has made her various ebook resources easier to find. She writes,
"I have consolidated some of my on-line projects into a single handy website: the e-Finds...
iPad 16GB review: Plans and preconceptions
The other day, our point of contact at our parent company NAPCO contacted Paul and me and asked if we would be interested in reviewing a 16-gigabyte iPad NAPCO had...
New self-published book review service – fee-based reviews
This sounds strange to me - paying a reviewer to review your book. I can't imagine that too many bad reviews will come out of this service. However, since it is...
New site reviews Smashwords books
Neil Crab has started a Smashwords book review site called, appropriately, Smashwords Books Reviewed. Neil is a Smashwords author himself, with a book of short stories, Believable Lies, and is...
OhGizmo! reviews Kobo Touch, is pretty happy with it
Andrew Liszewski at the gadget blog OhGizmo! has published a long review of the new Kobo Touch, and in it he concludes that it's the first ereader device he'd actually consider...
Book review by Joanna: “Capable of Murder” by Brian Kavanagh
I needed a short one this week; I am recovering (hopefully) from bronchitis and spent most of the weekend sleeping. Capable of Murder by Brian Kavanagh was just the thing---just barely...
Ebook Review by Joanna: Radium Halos by Shelly Stout
"A whole person's life is something like a war. After you fight in a war, you can't help but be different in some way, but folks change just from living through...
Book Review by Joanna: Dragonverse by Doug Farren
I don't usually read fantasy novels, so I was surprised to find myself drawn to the sample for Dragonverse by Doug Farren. In spite of its epic adventure aspirations, it's...