Patricia Briggs and Charlaine Harris Tour Dates

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Patricia Briggs Tour Dates for Silver Borne. Taken from Patty’s official website: March 26-28, 2010: Northhampton MAOnce again, the awesome folks at ConBust are letting me come play with the ladies at Smith College for a weekend. It’s a hoot, so come join the fun!March 30 — April 10: Signing tour for Silver Borne Seattle, [...]

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Blogaversary: Author Profile: Tamora Pierce

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For our blogaversary, we have decided to do a new feature to highlight a favourite, or newly discovered author. Since we are having a YA month here, we all agreed on Tamora Pierce for a profile, and our thoughts on her books. Profile: Tamora Pierce. YA author Bio: Tamora Pierce was born in Pennsylvania, but [...]

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Books and Moods…

As a reader I have found myself more then once picking up a book, starting it and then deciding that it just isn’t working for me.  Sometimes the book happens to be an old favourite and other times it is a new-to-me-author or book.  There have even been those that I have put aside… then [...]

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YA Releases

The Iron King

I’m so sorry for the formatting of the covers. WordPress is being a pain in the ass. Here are YA release and future YA releases that we are itching to get our hands on: The Iron King by Julia Kagawa. Release date: Out now. Blurb taken from author’s official website: MEGHAN CHASE HAS A SECRET [...]

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Ebook Survey

This month, the Tools of Change conference will take place. Jane from Dear Author along with Sarah Wendell from Smart Bitches Trashy Books and Editor Angela James from Carina Press will be presenting. Their presentation is what readers want and it is based on conversations they’ve had with ebook readers for over four years on [...]

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A year in blog-land

A year has rolled on by, and this months arrival celebrates our blogaversary. I hate getting all mushy, so I’m going to keep it short and sweet: To celebrate, throughout the month, we will be having giveaways and showcasing our all-time favourite books that we lurve – along with our normal reviews. Plus, we will [...]

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Bookpushers meet Maria V Snyder

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Yesterday we went to have our books signed at Waterstones Kings Road with Maria V Snyder, author of the amazing ‘Study series’ and ‘Glass series’. She is here to promote her new ‘Glass series’ book in the UK: ‘Sea Glass’. ‘Sea Glass’ is the second book of the series, telling the journey of Opal. Here’s [...]

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Changing Hosts

We are moving hosts, so if you have difficulty getting onto the site it’s because of the move. Our emails might be out of action for a short period of time also. If you do need to contact me for any reason, or need to contact any of the other book pushers, email me at [...]

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The Journey Part 1

Lou: I asked Julie to do a series of guest posts on the blog about her current journey of an aspiring author. Why? Because I too, previously, wanted to be an author. Now: I’ve firmly put those dreams behind me.  When I started The Book Pushers with Has, it was for our love of books, [...]

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Maria V. Snyder In the UK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ring in the New Year with Murder One Film Club and the first great fantasy-romance film night of 2010! Murder One presents an evening with Maria V. Snyder on Monday, January 18th. The bestselling author of the fabulous Study series will be signing the UK edition of her latest book Sea Glass (the second instalment [...]

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Ding Dong Merrily Along!

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I thought I would do a discussion post about the penis in romance. I am pretty sure its not the first time it will be discussed in romanceland or the last. Its a very popular subject that creates huge column inches. And will continue to grow I bet! The penis, however, wasn’t always desired to [...]

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