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RWI and RWA Discrimination

I was debating whether to post this or not because when it comes down to author and writer organisations, I don’t know enough about the rules, what they are about, and I don’t have enough knowledge about them. But I quickly realised that no matter the rules, regulations and laws of author organisations, wrong is [...]

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Opinion – Where I Rant about Erotic Romance

Even though I haven’t reviewed many erotic romances here on the blog, I do read and enjoy them. But I have a problem: Finding erotic romances that doesn’t feature double peens has become quite difficult. It seems these days, most erotic romance automatically means menage scenes. Variety is always good, but when you have a [...]

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Opinion – Expanding My Reading Horizons

I had always considered myself a pretty well-rounded reader when it came to genre fiction, but with my involvement in the on-line reading and writing community I became aware of several subjects that I had never discovered. I happily started digging into most of those but there were still a few niches moving towards mainstream [...]

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Close Encounters of the Peen et al Kind

Dear Readers, I have a confession to make: I am sometimes drawn to the unusual, the strange and the crazy – although not too cray cray (because there is some out there where not even I could get myself to read) – romance books. You know the ones with the extra appendages or the strange [...]

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Authors in the Red Corner, and Reviewers in the Blue Corner

see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz! So for those of you that don’t follow the YA genre, twitter, and Goodreads, this week you have missed a lot of drama. Some of you will be happy about that, and others will be asking, point me to the drama [...]

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Truckers vs Outcasts

Team Outcast FTW!

While we, The Book Pushers, might appear mild-mannered unless we are engaged in the business of pushing books but when it comes down to picking sides well lets just say the more badass the better! We introduced Moira Rogers’ Children of the Undying in our New Series Spotlight and we also reviewed Demon Bait the [...]

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E’s Top Comfort Re(Reads) of 2011 Part 1

As I am sure you have noticed the end of the year tends to bring a bunch of lists. Usually these lists involve the Top 10 or so of something. Well I decided I was going to join in that trend but I am doing it with a twist. I have had a rather interesting [...]

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When is PC Being Not Too PC?

Last night I heard that author P.C Cast incorporated some real life criticism she faced in her latest book, Destined. In this installment of her popular YA House of Night series, she focused an entire conversation about defending the use of the term ‘Retard’ because the author faced criticism from a parent who disagreed with [...]

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School is in Session: Review Requesting 101

Here at The Book Pushers we love blogging. We love to read great books,  talk to authors and chat with fellow readers. But, one of the biggest annoyances as a blogger is dealing with review requests. So we decided to come up with with this helpful blogging and review requesting 101 lesson plan for authors. [...]

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And Another One Bites the Dust

In case you are unaware, we would like to post you this link. After reading it, you can draw your own conclusions. Avoid. Avoid. Avoid. It’s a damn shame that there isn’t an organisation that holds publishers to account where you don’t have to fork out a fortune. Or at least a body which can [...]

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Unsavory Heroes

I recently read a book where the hero at times was a loathsome cruel bastard that treated the heroine in such an appalling way. He was a mean son of a bitch. Yet I was happy that they had their HEA, and more importantly for me, I actually believed in it. The story in question [...]

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