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Want to write a YA blockbuster? #ComedyBookWeek plus #BookReview YA #SciFi THE RIFT by J. T. Stoll

July 19, 2016

Peter Parker: “I can’t go to Germany!” Tony Stark: “Why not?” Peter: “I have…homework.” Tony: “Okay, I’m going to pretend …

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#ComedyBookWeek: Home is where the haunt is? #Bookreview MUST LOVE GHOSTS by @_ani_gonzalez #SundayBlogShare

July 17, 2016

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of god, tell a joke.” —Joss …

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Forecast? Steamy with a chance of dragons~ The Rocks of Aserol by @RichardDockett1 #steampunk #SciFi #Bookreview

July 15, 2016

There’s something about the romance and victorian propriety of steampunk that brings a comforting, classic familiarity to everything it touches. And with the way the world has gone lately, I wonder if we could all use a little of that? Wouldn’t you just love to slap an eye-patch and maybe some goggles on Hillary and send her out with a steam-powered harpoon to shoot down zeppelins? (Large orange ones full of gas and hot air perhaps?)

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Bad reviews = good company! #1-starClassics #SundayBlogShare

July 10, 2016

When I get a bad review… I play the one-star game. It’s easy! Just take any classic work of literature, and …

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Visions of Zarua by @rogersonsm #fantasy epic with a twist #Bookreview

July 5, 2016

It sucks to be the Chosen One… I like tropes. They are a wonderful shorthand that tells us immediately what’s …

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Page 69 challenge: Let There Be Linda by Rich Leder #FridayReads #humor #thriller

June 24, 2016

Describe Let There Be Linda in two words. Try Two Sentences. I can do six words: black comic thriller of the year. And I can do five words: silly, bloody, violent, hilarious fun. And I can do five words again: Monty Python meets Quentin Tarantino. And, finally, I can do two words: wild ride.

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Scariest book déjà vu ever? Five Days in January by @TheRTLowe #TuesdayBookBlog #SciFi #Fantasy

June 21, 2016

Harry Potter meets the 2016 US presidential campaign: I have to start this book review with an apology. I found it …

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Blogging vs Fiction: 5 pros & cons~ guest post by @KassandraLamb

June 19, 2016

I never wanted to blog. There I said it. In my mind, I was going to sit back and write books and …

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Father’s Day, Wedding Day, & #BookReview: Missing on Maui by @KassandraLamb #SundayBlogShare

June 19, 2016

Today is Father’s Day, plus I just finished Kassandra Lamb’s new cozy mystery, Missing on Maui about the scary events surrounding …

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Best ‘horrifying, #romantic, tragic, comic, #SciFi cowboy #detective novel’ ever! The Devil’s Mouth by Matt Kincade #FridayReads

June 17, 2016

Genre bingo (or How to Write a Bestselling Book/Hit Movie) : Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, …

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WHERE DID NULL CITY BOOKS GO? (and how can YOU read them for FREE?)

I've split with my publisher, so books 1-4 are getting a makeover in time for the release of OPEN FARE, the final NULL CITY book. If you'd like to read free copies before then, I invite you to join our Beta Reader team. Please send email (barbtaub (at) gmail (dot) com and be sure to let me know which format you prefer. I'll send you my undying thanks plus advanced readers copies of all books, including the upcoming OPEN FARE.

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Superpowers suck? Try Null City. After one day there, imps become baristas, and hellhounds become poodles. But someone should have told them the angels were all on the other side.

Each morning, hope flares in the tiny flash of a second before I touch that first thing. And destroy it.

Warden Carey Parker's to-do list is already long enough: find her brother and sister, rescue her roommate, save Null City, and castrate her ex-boyfriend. Preferably with a dull-edged garden tool. A rusty one.

Two novellas: "Payback Is A Witch" & "Just For The Spell Of It"

The story of three women eating our way across India in search of adventure, elephants, temples, palaces, western toilets, monkeys, the perfect paratha…and the kindness of Indian strangers.

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