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

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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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The Arse-biter is Gonna Gonna Getcha

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  I always thought the nature of blogging, especially for opinion pieces or rants, is to offer information, advice and views which can vary from support, to tackling controversial issues. Blogging is also a medium where you can partake and involve yourself in differing opinions and discussions even if you can disagree vehemently with an [...]

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Relationships: Is Less Sometimes More?

I read a lot. And by a lot, I mean A LOT… I read a wide variety of books, and am usually pretty happy with almost everything I pick up. However, the menage trend in so many erotica and romance books is really starting to grate on my nervous system. It’s my newest book beef [...]

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Genre Expectations vs Audience Expectations

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During the past few weeks, I have come across several instances about labeling and marketing books via Goodreads and blog posts about their perceived and targeted audiences. I recently raised this issue myself about a YA book which had erotic content. I was very uncomfortable with that, and it looks like it has been confirmed [...]

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Sex in YA

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  The other day, whilst browsing, I came across a new line of YA books by Noble Romance Publishing. I was quite surprised by this because they mostly do erotic romances, although the YA market is growing exponentially and that is probably the reason why they have jumped on the bandwagon. However looking closer at [...]

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Dear Readers: It’s not you, it’s me

As sad and horrible as this may sound, I expect authors to behave badly. I know that at least two or three times a month I’ll read something that will have me shaking me head in disbelief. But the occasional time comes around when an author says something so outrageous, so annoying that I find [...]

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Observations of The Alpha Male

  Greetings, Boy am I glad to be back!  I would like to thank my fellow Bookpushers for their support and understanding over this past year as well as those of you I was able to sporadically interact with.  I apologize for my absence from the blogging world but my real life job sent me [...]

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