Book News (and other fun stuff!!): March 29th, 2013

Here’s all the fun bookish stuff that I’ve gathered from this week! Remember, sometimes I add stuff throughout the day on Friday, so be sure you check back over the weekend too!

Interviews/Guest Posts/Articles:

• Amanda Bonilla, author of the Shaede Assassin series, is at Stellar Four with a guest post and a giveaway!
• Nightmare Magazine reviews Jonathan Maberry, author of the Joe Ledger series.
• I’m a contributor to this week’s MIND MELD at SF Signal (Books you savor, and books you eat like candy.). How cool is that??
• At Lit Reactor, Keith Rawson asks: Why The F*ck Aren’t You Reading Bonnie Jo Campbell (American Salvage)?
• I reviewed ORDINARY GRACE by William Kent Krueger at Crime Fiction Lover
• Jay Stringer, author of Runaway Town, is on Terribleminds this week (Chuck Wendig’s blog)
• EveryReadThing interviewed Nina Post, author of THE LAST CONDO BOARD OF THE APOCALYPSE
• Last week, I interviewed Peter Higgins, author of Wolfhound Century, and this week, so did The Qwillery!
• At Crime Fiction Lover, I reviewed SKIN by Mo Hayder and talked about 5 of my favorite cozy mystery series!

News :

• So, Amazon bought Goodreads…
• Richard Parker’s new thriller SCARE ME, will be out on April 30th from Exhibit A Books, and they just announced that Wentworth Miller (Prison Break) will be adapting the book for the screen with Relativity Media, who acquired the screen rights!

Excerpts:

• You can read THE RUNNING OF THE BULLS, a short story by Harry Turtledove, at Tor.com
• You can read an excerpt of WOLFHOUND CENTURY by Peter Higgins at Orbit Books

And, to send you off into the weekend with a huge case of the creeps, check out the trailer for THE SHINING GIRLS by Lauren Beukes:

2 Responses to “Book News (and other fun stuff!!): March 29th, 2013”

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1. Megan S. says:

   March 31, 2013 at 1:28 pm

   Wow! The Shining Girls trailer is one of the best I’ve seen. Usually book trailers are so cheesy because of (I assume) budget constraints but this one was really effective.

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   • Kristin says:

     March 31, 2013 at 2:50 pm

     It creeped me out pretty thoroughly

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