September 2006

This genre is clearly getting played out quickly for me. How many different ways can you tell the same story? Plus, only a handful of authors do a good job at it anyway. Can you say market saturation?

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Well, September was a pretty thin month for me. I did get Alpha by Catherine Asaro and Diana Norman’s The Sparks Fly Upward. However, it looks as if October is the month I’m waiting for since these titles will be out then:

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While blog hopping, I came across this bit of news: it seems that Naomi Novik’s Temeraire will be a feature film directed by Peter Jackson. The story was awesome but the writing was a bit rough around the edges to me. I haven’t read the sequels yet. If this is indeed true, I’d love to see the […]

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Here is an interesting article discussing the blockbuster books being released this Fall. It’s a crowded market and publishers are worried.  Also, I had no idea that Janet Evanovich has another release due. Must be the Metrogirl series featuring NASCAR racers. I only think of her Stephanie Plum series which I don’t read anymore. I found Metrogirl […]

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Off topic from my usual but I haven’t been reading much lately thanks to work and I didn’t have nothing to discuss. However, I found a rather interesting article on The Wall Street Journal that a online pal sends me whenever there’s an interesting topic on authors, readers and such. I found it interesting that […]

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