Well, it seems that Janet Evanovich and Stephen Cannell’s col­lab­o­ra­tive effort, No Chance, may have “no chance” of being released any­time soon. Gal​l​ey​cat​.com reports that Janet Evanovich con­firmed the claims that the book was on hold and stated sched­ul­ing con­flicts. I can’t say that I am sorry to hear the news. How­ever, Ama​zon​.com still has the book listed for Octo­ber release.

Lisa Valdez’s antic­i­pated follow-up, Patience, is no longer listed at Ama​zon​.com.  Sorry to see this. Pas­sion was released in 2005. It’s been almost two years since last book was released. Will read­ers ever read Patience? Will read­ers run out of patience is a bet­ter question. Her web­site hasn’t been updated since May 2007.  Oddly enough, the last listed  release date was May 2007. Any­body with news, please share.

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Harry Pot­ter mania has started at my local book­store. They have put out a lot of the most pop­u­lar children’s and teen fic­tion books with Ms. Meyer’s New Moon and Twi­light head­ing the bunch. Since this is Harry’s last out­ing, it’s time to pro­mote other books that are just as good or even bet­ter than Harry Pot­ter.  On release day I rec­om­mend fans stay off the com­puter and cut off the television.

Join­ing the cho­rus of other read­ers who appre­ci­ated the read­ers who went to RWA con­fer­ence and reported back: thank you. It was the best cov­er­age I’ve ever seen on the ‘net. Like many other read­ers who were at home this year, we plan to be there next year. Right? Blog hop­ping, I see some­body needed to share the fact that one, two or three–who knows–authors felt uncom­fort­able with review­ers being at the con­fer­ence this year. First, I don’t think this is the first year review­ers or read­ers have ever attended the con­fer­ence. Sec­ondly, what was the pur­pose of shar­ing their dis­con­tent­ment on the ‘net? Makes no dif­fer­ence to me. Our money spends just as well as yours. I find the whole thing silly. No links.

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